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Arrivals from 33 countries will be met at the airport and taken to quarantine accommodation (Credit: Belinda Fewings / Unsplash)
Heathrow to reopen terminal for red list flights
Airport will initially create a new dedicated arrivals hall in Terminal 3 from 1 June
Shapps will discuss travel and tourism's recovery from Covid-19
'Use a bit of common sense on amber list travel' – Shapps
’We are starting to shift responsibility back to individuals to look at what are the right and wrong things to do,’ transport secretary tells BBC Breakfast
BA aims to send people to sleep with new pods
BA aims to send people to sleep with new pods
The airline says the new pre-flight pods will allow for perfect power naps
Portugal has been left off the UK's 'safe travel' lists (Credit: Melanie Martin / Unsplash)
Updated: Airlines and operators welcome first green list departures
British Airways and easyJet resume limited operations
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Wizz Air adds Rome flights from Luton and Liverpool
Low-cost carrier is creating a new base at Rome Fiumicino airport
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Balpa blasts Sturgeon's stance on Scotland's green list
First minister said green list status should be ’exception, not the rule’; but Balpa has said there must be ’good reason’ to keep countries off the list
Etihad is hoping to expand its schedule going into the summer
Etihad to offer pre-travel Covid document verification
Gulf carrier set to roll out Verified to Fly initiative this week
Heathrow and Virgin want the US on the UK's green list (Credit: Joey Csunyo / Unsplash)
Govt urged to expand 'green list' to include US
Heathrow says it’s vital the list is ‘massively expanded’ to include other low-risk markets such as the US, while Virgin has warned the government not to forget the economic importance of UK-US travel
Kuoni will offer Covid testing packages (Credit: Mufid Majnun/Unsplash)
Kuoni to offer Covid test packages 'by end of the week'
Jones was speaking as part of panel in the latest TTG Debate, analysing the government’s traffic light announcement on Friday
Heathrow's passenger numbers fell to their lowest level since 1966 in February (Credit: Heathrow airport)
Aviation chiefs criticise govt's 'over-cautious' restart plan
UK risks squandering ‘vaccine dividend’, say Heathrow, BA, easyJet, Jet2 and MAG bosses
Vaccine passes 'an inevitability' when travel resumes
Airport Operators Association says a single portal or app vital to ensure a four nations approach to the resumption of international travel
Corendon will offer summer 2022 departures from Gatwick, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle and Birmingham
Corendon details 2022 Newcastle-Turkey services
Turkish carrier to offer 50,000 seats to Antalya and Dalaman from north-east airport
Transport secretary Grant Shapps again stressed the importance of the current quarantine requirements
Shapps hints at two-week notice period for traffic light changes
Transport secretary updates MPs on plans to restart international travel
Heathrow says it is ready to scale up its operations to meet demand as it returns
Heathrow's Covid losses spiral to nearly £2.4 billion
Boss John Holland-Kaye said Covid border closures had ‘devastated the aviation sector and British trade’
HEATHROW'S COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
VAT-free shopping axe causes Dixons Travel to close stores
AOA blasts government for precipitating closure of 35 airport shops
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More than 600 fines issued to airlines over Covid paperwork
Airlines obliged to ensure passengers have correct documentation before arriving in England
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CAA blocks Heathrow plan to recover £2.6bn through higher fees
CAA tells Heathrow it can only recover a fraction of debts through increased fees levied on passengers and airlines
Three-times-weekly flights to the Cornish holiday hot spot will get under way from 8 June (Credit: Leif Christoph Gottwald / Unsplash)
EasyJet to launch Gatwick-Newquay route this summer
Three-times-weekly flights will get under way from 8 June
Jet2.com is launching new summer flights to Innsbruck, Austria
Jet2.com extends winter 2021/22 ski flight programme
Extra services available from Birmingham, Manchester, Stansted and Bristol
Manchester airport is temporarily closing Terminals Two and Three (Credit: Hufton and Crow)
Airports group calls for 'restriction-free' traffic light category
MAG’s plan would allow people to travel confidently to low-risk countries without having to pay for a PCR test upon their return
Arrivals from 33 countries will be met at the airport and taken to quarantine accommodation (Credit: Belinda Fewings / Unsplash)
Aviation sector may need govt support to survive 'bleak' 2021
Pilots union Balpa and trade body Airlines UK welcome government transport committee’s critical review of the Global Travel Taskforce report
Antigen tests tend to be quicker and cheaper than PCR testing (Credit: Medakit)
Global testing provider added to Iata Travel Pass scheme

Iata Travel Pass provides information on entry requirements, directs travellers to trusted labs, and allows passengers to receive and manage digital certificates for Covid-19 tests or vaccinations.

The agreement will make Unilabs one of the first major lab groups to be integrated into the app. Proof of a negative Covid-19 test is required by many governments as a condition of entry, and the app “makes the process seamless, secure, and easy”. 

Willie Walsh, Iata’s director general, said: “Covid-19 testing will play a role in re-starting international travel.

Aer Lingus Regional has begun two new routes
Aer Lingus Regional operator offloaded as Stobart quits airline business
Tech entrepreneur is paid to take airline from previous owners
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Govt warned airport queues could worsen after 17 May
’There needs to be a solution – is there going to be something in place by 17 May? I’m not certain there is,’ Lucy Moreton from the Immigration Service Union tells Sky News