Airlines UK and Airport Operators Association welcome prime minister’s hint that lateral flow testing for Covid-19 could be used to satisfy the UK’s post-arrival testing requirements
Prime minister says he has taken onboard comments from easyJet boss Johan Lundgren about the cost of mandatory testing pricing people out of international travel when it resumes
‘As ever, this government had hyped something up, which they then failed to deliver,’ says TTG editor Sophie Griffiths of Boris Johnson’s Easter Monday update on international travel
EasyJet chief calls on government to commit to giving sufficient notice of any changes in a destination’s traffic light grading, and to provide data for its decisions
’It has now become evident that we would not obtain the approval of the European Commission,’ said Transat president and chief executive Jean-Marc Eustache
Travel to England from Pakistan, Philippines, Kenya and Bangladesh to be banned for all but British, Irish and third-country nationals with residence rights from 4am on Friday
Former IAG chief says the association is ‘absolutely focused on restoring the freedom of movement airlines provide to billions of people around the world’
The appointments see Tui’s Andrew Flintham rejoin the board as one of three new directors, with Royal’s Stuart Leven and Tui’s Richard Sofer making way
