Peaks is fast approaching, but how ’normal’ will it be after 20 months of the Covid pandemic? Operators open up to Rob Gill about their plans and hopes for the crucial post-Christmas booking period
From 4am on Tuesday (30 November), all arrivals into England – including those who are fully vaccinated – will have to take a PCR test for Covid-19 and isolate until they get their result
Robert Courts tells Airlines 2021 conference delegates government would look to do ’anything we can do’ to simplify travel, but not until peaks is under way
Competition and Markets Authority to investigate with BA parent’s €500 million (£420 million) cut-deal for the Spanish carrier would harm competition in the UK
Airline and operator posts deeper first-half loss and expects losses to continue into 2022 as it invests in the rebound, but is confident of a return to normal operations next summer
Transport secretary says it’s okay to keep flying as Boris Johnson prepares to return to the negotiating table at Cop26 while BA is on the lookout for 4,000 new members of staff
’From governments to individual business, the question on everyone’s lips over the past 18 months has been how we can all ’build back better’,’ writes TTG editor Sophie Griffiths
The latest issue of TTG is out now, with extensive coverage of the US reopening to international visitors from 8 November and travel’s need to up its response to the climate crisis
New figures show a rise in agency failures, but there is good news with the reopening of US borders for UK visitors for the first time since March 2020
Travellers arriving in the UK from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Peru and Venezuela will no longer have to submit to hotel quarantine on arrival
Grant Shapps confirms seven remaining red list countries to be removed from 4am on Monday but the system – and hotel quarantine – will remain in place for use, if deemed necessary
