The CAA has reiterated the importance of financial protection, such as that provided by the Atol scheme, ahead of what it is forecasting to be "one of the busiest weekends of the year for holiday bookings" after the government announced plans to relax pre-departure and Day 2 testing rules.
From 4am on Friday, arrivals into England will no longer have to provide evidence of a pre-departure test taken in-destination.
And from Sunday, the Day 2 testing standard will be lowered from PCR to lateral flow. Arrivals will also no longer have to self-isolate while they wait for the result of their Day 2 test.
The changes mark a wholesale return to the UK government’s testing regime that preceded the arrival of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
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