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SPAA: 'Clients are moving bookings to English departure airports'

Government
Jo Dooey
29 April 2021

We’ve been lobbying hard for a traffic light system for many months now, and we live in hope of an announcement on which countries are "green" soon.

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The final meeting of the Scottish Aviation Working Group takes places this Friday (30 April) so we won’t know any outcomes until after this group, on which we sit, announces their recommendations.

However, what we, and Scottish travellers really need, is a four nations approach to traffic lights and all other issues.

Agencies that have opened up this week for the first time since December 2020 have seen a reasonable restart, with some bookings coming in, but the travelling public – who are desperate to travel again – are reluctant to book in case the country they wish to travel to is not "green lighted".