BTA unveils plan to restore business travel in 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.