A coalition of more than 20 business travel leaders have set out a plan to get the sector moving again in as little as seven days.
The Business Travel Association (BTA) has written to home secretary Priti Patel and transport secretary Grant Shapps detailing a pilot "travel corridor" scheme it says could serve as a "safe, secure alternative" to the UK’s blanket quarantine measures, introduced on Monday (8 June).
The scheme calls for "on-the-spot" Covid antigen (PCR) testing for business travellers arriving in, or returning to, the UK from the sector’s three most in-demand short-haul destinations – Paris, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.
According to the BTA, the pilot would offer a "clear and tested route" to allow government to ease quarantine restrictions for business and leisure travellers.