Elsewhere, despite rising Covid infections across Europe, France’s tourism minister has insisted the country’s ski resorts will stay open and welcome back British visitors this winter.
Residents in western Scotland, meanwhile, were woken by a 3.1-magnitude earthquake in the middle of the night.
Here are the key headlines travel woke up to on Tuesday morning (16 November)
Get your booster jab to avoid new travel restrictions
Prime minister Boris Johnson has suggested travellers will need a third or booster Covid jab to avoid quarantine. Johnson said that only having three vaccine doses would count as being fully vaccinated and promised the NHS Covid app would soon show booster jabs to allow people to travel more freely. (The Times)
Terror threat level raised after hospital suicide attack
The UK terror attack level is being raised for the first time in months after an explosion outside a Liverpool hospital on Sunday (14 November). Home secretary Priti Patel said the threat level would be upgraded from substantial to severe meaning another terror attack was “highly likely”. (The Guardian)
Ski resorts ‘raring to go’, insist French despite European infection surge
France is gearing up for an “exceptional” ski season thanks to Covid vaccinations and its digital health pass, says tourism minister Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, who insisted that closing resorts this winter was “not an option” with Britons welcome at the country’s 350 resorts. (The Telegraph)
Western Scotland shaken by 3.1-magnitude earthquake
A 3.1 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Scotland in the early hours of Tuesday (16 November). Residents of western Scotland experienced tremors in the night at around 2am with the epicentre around 88 miles north-west of Glasgow. (The Independent)
Private jet rush prompts plane shortage as wealthy dodge airline woes
The “patchy” return of scheduled airline flights has been encouraging record numbers of wealthy travellers to use private jets instead, causing a shortage in the availability of these aircraft. Figures show more than 4.2 million private jet flights have taken place globally so far this year. (Financial Times)
Drunk pilot who nearly flew from UK to US was four times legal limit
An airline pilot has been jailed after he was found to be more than four times over the alcohol limit shortly before he had been due to fly 177 people from Glasgow to Newark. Glendon Gulliver, from Colorado, received a 10-month prison sentence for the offence at a Scottish court on Monday (15 November). (The Mirror)
