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The testing centres opened on Thursday (3 December)
Testing indecision 'causing wholly avoidable stress'
Business Travel Association calls for ‘urgent clarity’ from government on UK testing regime for travel after prime minister hints at pre-travel testing requirement
Jet2's first flight from Bristol will take off for Lanzarote on 1 April 2021
Jet2holidays launches exclusive promotion for independents
Operator offering £110pp discount on all package bookings made through independent agents by 1 March
Taking a look back at 20 weeks of TTG Travel Agent Tracker data
Join TTG's exclusive Travel Agent Tracker research panel
TTG’s efforts to chart the effects of the coronavirus crisis on the travel trade will continue into 2021 as we look to help #RestartTravel
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What does England's new national lockdown mean for travel?
’Holidays in the UK and abroad are not allowed,’ states new government advice
Tui said it would update customers on trips due to depart through to mid-February shortly
Operators suspend programmes owing to new national lockdown
Tui, Jet2holidays and easyJet Holidays announce changes to near-term operations
BA passengers will be able to change their travel arrangements (Credit: Jason Leung / Unsplash)
New national lockdown fuels fresh plea for govt support
Abta calls on ministers to ‘urgently address’ gap in support for businesses across the UK unable to generate income owing to lockdown
BA will start retiring its iconic 747s on Tuesday
British Airways secures £2bn state-backed loan
BA hopes to draw the facility immediately, subject to final terms
Abta members star in this year's Travel with Confidence campaign
High street agents star in new Abta confidence campaign
Westoe Travel’s Graeme Brett and Liphook Travel’s Andrew Meech among those to front association’s 2021 Travel with Confidence push
Holidaysplease hails 'front-foot mindset' after strong December
Holidaysplease hails 'front-foot mindset' after strong December
Homeworking firm records December sales within 25% of 2019 total
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Flight Centre offers up UK shops as vaccine hubs
Agency urges health sec Matt Hancock or PM Boris Johnson to get in touch
The ExpressTest facility will operate year-round, with tests for passengers costing £80pp
Heathrow welcomes 'UK's largest' private Covid test facility
New 24-lane drive-through centre will be open year-round, offering passengers tests for £80pp
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UK outbound travel intent strengthening, poll finds
UK travellers, however, continue to show the least desire to travel over the next six months across a 6,000-strong sample taken from 10 European nations
Shapps will discuss travel and tourism's recovery from Covid-19
Transport sec promises travel corridor 'certainty' over festive season
Grant Shapps said on Thursday there would be only emergency removals from the list over Christmas and the new year
Fred Olsen's Braemar was held off the coast of Freeport in the Bahamas
Fred Olsen to lay-up Braemar until 2022
Line reveals ‘back to service’ dates for fleet ahead of planned cruise restart
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Iata sets out plans for Covid 'Travel Pass' app
Mobile app will help travellers manage testing requirements or necessary vaccine certification via their smartphones
The WTTC's global summit has been pushed back to autumn (Credit: WTTC)
WTTC: Test to release 'hindering rather than helping'
Council questions whether scheme to cut quarantine from 10 to five days through testing is fit for purpose
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Bourne Leisure to exit travel trade next year
Transition period to run through to the end of February; all existing and new trade bookings for Butlin’s, Haven and Warner Leisure Hotels will be honoured
Passenger experience to be 'secondary' to Covid precautions over Christmas period, Heathrow has warned
Heathrow vows to strictly enforce Covid safety measures
Passenger experience to be ‘secondary’ to Covid precautions over Christmas period, airport warns
Responsible Travel believes its time to tax polluters more heavily – including airlines
Competition watchdog launches airline refund probe
Authority to investigate situations where airlines continued to operate flights despite people being unable to lawfully travel for non-essential purposes
Kuoni said Latin America trips were proving popular following the BBC's Race Around the World (Pictured: Chile)
Lata chief: Latin America must fight international perception
Danny Callaghan tells Aito conference destinations across the region had been unfairly tarred with the same brush in terms of their Covid response
Jardine said the crisis had hit agents in Australia hard (Credit: cato.travel)
Australian travel trade halved by Covid crisis
Half of Australia’s retail agents already lost over past six to seven months, Aito conference hears
Heathrow CEO John Holland-Kaye is among the signatories
Vaccine 'better for confidence than shorter quarantine'
New Skyscanner surveys reveals factors impacting people’s confidence to travel amid the ongoing Covid crisis
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Test to release provider pulls out hours after launch
List of testing providers for scheme to cut quarantine issued just a few hours before scheme came into force on Tuesday (15 December)
'We have turned on each other and we must stop'
What all this talk of 'ringfencing' means for travel
Abta’s John de Vial reflects on the financial protection landscape in travel following the Covid refund crisis