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US travel ban 'to continue until November'

Government
Gary Noakes
24 August 2021

Tuesday’s travel headlines making the national press include reports of growing concerns the US’s ban on UK travellers will continue until the winter.

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Airlines fear the purgatory facing those wishing to hop across the Atlantic could last until Thanksgiving in late-November, extending the tacit ban well past 18 months.

Elsewhere, there is brighter news in the form of broad agreement that few – if any – immediately popular destinations will fall onto the UK’s red list, and renewed worries about how the UK’s PCR test data is being used.

These are the key headlines affecting travel on Tuesday (24 August).

US travel ban ‘to continue’, airlines fear