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- Quarantine: What do the new rules mean for my travel plans? (5/22/2020)
How the rules requiring 14 days of self-isolation for arrivals to Britain will work, starting from 8 June - Boris Johnson declines to advise on holiday plans as businesses criticise 14-day self-isolation rule (6/3/2020)
From 8 June, most arrivals at UK airports, ferry ports and international rail terminals will be required to self-isolate at home for two weeks - Quarantine: Priti Patel gives go-ahead to 14 days of self-isolation for arrivals to UK (6/3/2020)
'Travellers from overseas could become a high proportion of infection cases, said the home secretary - Government should strip Heathrow slots from British Airways over job cuts, says MP (6/3/2020)
Claudia Webbe, Labour MP for Leicester East, called BA 'immoral, opportunistic and greedy' - Quarantine: Portugal says talks for 'air bridge' to bypass self-isolation are under way (6/3/2020)
Foreign minister, Augusto Santos Silva, described quarantine as 'an enemy of tourism' - Quarantine: UK travel plan could be 'three week wonder', Patel and Shapps say (6/3/2020)
Home secretary and transport secretary say 'It is crucial that we introduce these measures now' - Coronavirus: easyJet cancels seven out of 10 of its summer flights (6/2/2020)
Airline must offer affected travellers choice between a full cash refund and a suitable alternative departure - Coronavirus: Why airlines abandoning smaller airports is bad for travellers (6/2/2020)
Plane Talk: If you have no connections to make, the secondary airport experience is far smoother and less crowded - Quarantine: Matt Hancock refuses to be drawn on 'air bridge' plans to avoid 14 days of isolation (6/2/2020)
94% of travel business leaders surveyed said they expect their summer bookings to disappear if quarantine plans are introduced - Quarantine: Tory revolt grows over self-isolation plan for travellers (6/2/2020)
'The medical and scientific evidence I have looked at is equivocal,' said the former transport minister, Stephen Hammond - Thumbs down: Does coronavirus mean hitchhiking has reached the end of the road? (6/1/2020)
'Once cars are allowed to take passengers I shall be back to hitchhiking,' said the travel writer Hilary Bradt - Quarantine: Airlines lobby ministers to exempt 45 'air bridge' countries (6/1/2020)
Many countries in Africa and the Caribbean are omitted from the 'preferred' list - More than 2 million British travellers able to avoid 14-day quarantine after travelling abroad (5/31/2020)
Exclusive: two weeks of strict self-isolation will not apply to police, bus drivers and dentists - Quarantine will 'kill travel industry', government warned amid Tory backlash (6/1/2020)
Former ministers call for rethink of 14-day self-isolation plan for arrivals - Emirates to make some staff redundant after coronavirus sparked 'difficult times' for airline (5/31/2020)
Spokesperson says it will have to "say goodbye" to some workers - Tales of the river bed: A strange Saturday night on the banks of the Thames (5/29/2020)
The Man Who Pays His Way: The British travel and tourism industry is ebbing away - British holidaymakers want to visit Spain, Greece and Italy – but most will wait until next summer (5/30/2020)
Florida, the Caribbean and Mexico are top long-haul destinations - In the air tonight: Air Canada offers rock-star comfort – and social distancing – with 'Covid class' (5/29/2020)
Passengers are promised shorter walking times at the airport - Coronavirus: Majority of readers say they will push back holidays to 2021 (5/29/2020)
Exclusive: Premium readers of The Independent vote 72:28 against foreign holidays this summer - Test, trace and stay put: the possible pitfalls of the coronavirus tracking system for travellers (5/29/2020)
Exclusive: airlines, package holiday companies and Eurostar are offering flexibility - EasyJet to cut up to 30% of its staff amid global pandemic (5/28/2020)
'We want to protect as many jobs as we can for the long term,' said the airline's CEO, Johan Lundgren - Tui cancels hundreds of thousands of holidays as quarantine deadline approaches (5/28/2020)
The move mirrors the decision of Tui's biggest rival, Jet2 Holidays - Matt Hancock says 'no foreign holiday this year' as MPs call for quarantine plan to be scrapped (5/28/2020)
Health minister was speaking as easyJet announced 4,500 job losses - Ibiza holidaymakers must prove they don't have coronavirus, says island leader (5/28/2020)
There are calls to introduce a certificate - Travel leaders demand 14-day quarantine scheme is scrapped (5/28/2020)
'A three-week wonder' – one senior aviation figure's view of the mandatory self-isolation plan - British Airways cancels all flights from Leeds Bradford airport (5/27/2020)
Exclusive: Yorkshire's last air connection with London has been cut - Japan won't pay half of foreign tourists' costs (5/27/2020)
Since 3 April, entry to Japan has been denied to any non-Japanese nationals who has been to the UK in the last 14 days - UK quarantine: Boris Johnson didn't know the rules. But we do (5/26/2020)
The presumption will be that you are carrying Covid-19. You should occupy a room separate from any other members of the household - Tui customers remain angry over lack of coronavirus refunds (5/27/2020)
'We've had to cancel holidays for nearly a million customers,' says Britain's biggest holiday company - Coronavirus: British Airways offers passengers chance to switch flights for free to avoid UK quarantine (5/27/2020)
Plane Talk: Free date changes to dodge 14-day self-isolation show the policy is ineffectual - Coronavirus: Airline passengers trying to switch seats will be told to stay put (5/26/2020)
Cheap seats shuffle consigned to aviation history in contact tracing bid - Virgin Orbit's first rocket launch over Pacific Ocean hits snag (5/24/2020)
Richard Branson aims to launch satellites for a fraction of current costs - Coronavirus travel advice: 10 of the most frequently asked questions (3/27/2020)
Dozens of travel firms are refusing refunds, saying that the rules have changed. That is not the case – yet - Quarantine: Macron ally hits out at new UK policy amid coronavirus pandemic (5/25/2020)
'It's a disappointment that the UK is excluding itself from Europe,' said Bruno Bonnell - Coronavirus: Grant Shapps dismisses 'Dublin dodge' to avoid quarantine (5/23/2020)
Transport secretary claims visit to Ireland will not circumvent 14-day self-isolation rule - Coronavirus: UK holidaymakers face bans from Mediterranean sun spots (5/23/2020)
'Sick man of Europe' image grows as France launches tit-for-tat quarantine from 8 June - 90 excruciating seconds at the Transport Select Committee (5/21/2020)
The Man Who Pays His Way: the aviation minister deserves your sympathy - Travel industry's warning on new quarantine rules as loopholes emerge (5/22/2020)
Any UK-bound traveller can easily circumvent the new 14-day self-isolation rules with either of the 'Dublin dodges' - Pakistan plane crash: Khan calls for an investigation after Airbus jet comes down near Karachi, killing dozens (5/22/2020)
Prime minister Imran Khan promises 'immediate inquiry' following crash near Karachi's Jinnah International Airport - Airbus A320: well-regarded workhorse of short-haul flying (5/22/2020)
Twin-jet was involved in the so-called 'Miracle on the Hudson' in 2009 - Coronavirus: Shearings coach holiday company collapses into administration (5/22/2020)
Some 64,000 holidays cancelled as more than 2,500 lose jobs - Coronavirus: Jet2 cancels all its June holidays (5/22/2020)
'In view of the ongoing travel restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, we will recommence our flights and holidays programme on 1 July' - Coronavirus: Priti Patel to confirm 14-day quarantine for UK arrivals from June (5/21/2020)
Home secretary will order mandatory self-isolation of inbound travellers - Coronavirus: Tui admits 'we haven't got it right' over refunds (5/21/2020)
'It's been a learning curve for us. I'll be the first to admit we didn't always get it right,' wrote managing director Andrew Flintham - The joys of cycling into the centre of Britain (8/24/2019)
Seven adventures in seven days: Cycling to the centre of Britain - Coronavirus: Britons not welcome in Greece until infection rate declines, says tourism minister (5/21/2020)
'The UK has a big difference in terms of the current medical status of the country with Greece,' tourism minister Harry Theoharis told ITV - Heathrow demands 14-day quarantine for travellers policy should be phased out by end of June (5/21/2020)
'We must be sure that a health epidemic does not become an unemployment epidemic,' said John Holland-Kaye - EasyJet to resume flying on 15 June (5/21/2020)
'These are small and carefully planned steps that we are taking to resume operations,' said the easyJet CEO, Johan Lundgren - Greece opens for international tourists in July – and cuts VAT on transport and coffee (5/20/2020)
Domestic tourism season begins 15 June, with first international holiday flights touching down 16 days later - How flying could change for the better after coronavirus (5/20/2020)
Plane Talk: IATA hopes that the new face of aviation may bring some improvements - Airlines 'taking advantage' of coronavirus crisis to offload costly staff, say unions (5/20/2020)
'This is an opportunistic land-grab by some of these airlines exploiting this situation,' said Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton - Spain's islands will open to tourists ahead of biggest cities including Barcelona and Madrid (5/20/2020)
The country hopes to open up to tourists in June - Coronavirus quarantine: Could an 'air bridge' salvage your summer holiday? (5/19/2020)
With the Cabinet split over quarantine, the idea of bilateral travel links constitutes a messy compromise - EasyJet hack: what does it mean for me and my personal data? (5/19/2020)
Cyberattack leads to nine million passengers having their data 'accessed' - EasyJet hacked: 9 million customers' details stolen in 'sophisticated cyberattack' (5/19/2020)
Credit card details of more than 2,000 customers exposed - Portugal to reopen beaches next month in bid to regain tourists (5/19/2020)
New app will help holidaymakers find space on the beaches of the Algarve - Coronavirus quarantine for UK arrivals delayed until June (5/18/2020)
'The final details of the quarantine scheme will be released soon and come in early next month,' said the transport secretary - Caravan park owners plead with Boris Johnson to end lockdown for 'fresh air hotels' (5/18/2020)
Welsh government says 'accommodation businesses without shared facilities' can open earlier - Coronavirus: Quarantine 'appropriate now as UK becomes area of low incidence of Covid-19', top medic says (5/18/2020)
14-day self-isolation was imposed for arrivals from some locations early in the coronavirus outbreak - Austrian summer ski resort to reopen as coronavirus lockdown eases (5/18/2020)
Hintertux glacier promises '3.4m of snow and, in some cases, the finest powder' - Coronavirus: Ryanair boss says travellers will ignore 14-day quarantine rule (5/18/2020)
Michael O'Leary says UK government is 'making this idiotic and unimplementable stuff up as they go along' - Ryanair announces €1bn profit but forecasts deep losses (5/18/2020)
Carrier predicts: 'Significant price discounting, and below-cost selling, from flag carriers with huge state-aid war chests' - Quarantine: 'Closing our borders to all will be closing Britain to business,' says Heathrow (5/17/2020)
Government insists 'it is the right time to prepare new measures at the border' - Coronavirus: Is it safe to go on a UK holiday and how can I travel? (5/16/2020)
As lockdown eases, this is what it means for your holiday plans - Parts of London to be closed to cars and congestion charge to rise (5/15/2020)
Plans will create 'one of the largest car-free areas in any capital city in the world', claims mayor - Book your train seat in advance or risk being turned away, says LNER (5/15/2020)
Reservations will not initially be for specific seats but simply to limit the numbers on board each train to 20 per cent of normal capacity - Car sharing allowed again, says UK government in U-turn (5/15/2020)
'The shared transport sector is playing a vital role during this current crisis,' said Laura Finlayson of the shared transport charity CoMoUK - How and when will business travel be possible again? (5/13/2020)
Plane Talk: 'While the technology is helpful, it is essentially crap,' says Michael O'Leary - Government's confusing message spells disaster for the travel industry (5/15/2020)
The Man Who Pays His Way: those of us who seek to travel once again at least deserve straight answers - Stay away from Lake District and other beauty spots this weekend, Britons warned (5/15/2020)
'Please don't travel for the moment to the Lake District,' urges the national park's chief executive, Richard Leafe - Coronavirus: British Airways boss rebukes government for 'setting back recovery plans' (5/14/2020)
Willie Walsh, chief executive of BA's parent company, IAG, confirmed 12,000 job cuts will go ahead - Hitchhiking and carsharing banned over coronavirus fears (5/14/2020)
Exclusive: AA warns that prohibiting carsharing could put more commuters at risk - Summer holiday 2020: Your essential guide to how you might travel in Britain or overseas (5/13/2020)
Everything you need to know - UK will only have room for one in 10 passengers on public transport, says minister (5/13/2020)
Grant Shapps warned the government will 'take steps' if overcrowding ensues - Tui says travel should restart across Europe and vows to 'reinvent the holiday' (5/13/2020)
Holiday giant has announced up to 8,000 job cuts as it seeks to reduce costs by one-third - Ryanair passengers will need to ask cabin crew for permission to visit the toilet (5/12/2020)
Exclusive: Demand for use of onboard facilities may diminish because tea and coffee will not be served - Spain orders all foreign travellers to quarantine for two weeks upon arrival (5/12/2020)
The measure will start on Friday - Ryanair wants to resume 40% of flights from July — if passengers wear masks (5/12/2020)
To kick-start sales, the airline is offering fares of £43 from Manchester to Faro in Portugal on 28 June and £45 from Edinburgh to Rome on 1 July - Coronavirus: Airlines and airports baffled by quarantine guidelines (5/11/2020)
'People will simply choose not to travel to and from the UK, at the same time as economies in Europe begin opening up,' says letter to prime minister from 28 aviation leaders - Wear face coverings, carry hand sanitiser and wash hands before and after travelling on public transport, TfL tells Londoners (5/11/2020)
Advice applies to tube, buses, black cabs and minicabs - British Airways boss scathing about quarantine move (5/11/2020)
'It appears the government is not going to apply quarantine for people who coming to the UK on other means of transport. I don't understand that' - Quarantine: What do new UK travel guidelines mean for my holidays? (5/10/2020)
Boris Johnson says mandatory 14-day self-isolation will apply to inbound airline passengers - Coronavirus: Quarantine could finish off hundreds of travel firms, industry figures warn (5/10/2020)
'Ministers are telling people they cannot travel for the foreseeable future. Airlines will ground their operations,' said Tim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK - Summer 2020: quarantine move will trigger 'bank holiday traffic every day' as prices soar above £2k for a week at Center Parcs (5/9/2020)
Exclusive: 'As well as staggered working hours we need to stagger holidays,' says AA president Edmund King - Quarantine: 'We're not going to be able to police self-isolation', says Police Federation chair (5/9/2020)
Metropolitan Police Federation chairman says planned 14-day strategy is unenforceable - Tourism reopening plans would be 'on the scrapheap' under 14-day quarantine, says airport boss (5/9/2020)
'For tourists coming to Cornwall from Germany, Scandinavia and elsewhere, that's the end,' says Tim Jeans, chairman of Newquay airport - Coronavirus: Holidays at risk as Boris Johnson set to announce 14 day quarantine for travellers arriving in UK (5/8/2020)
'Quarantine would not only have a devastating impact on the UK aviation industry, but also on the wider economy,' said Karen Dee, chief executive of the Airport Operators' Association - Vintage railway posters redesigned to encourage tourists to delay holidays until after lockdown (5/8/2020)
Posters have been reimagined to include slogans including 'visit when this is all over' and 'no swimming today' - Project lift-off: What frustrated travellers want to hear as Boris Johnson eases lockdown restrictions (5/8/2020)
The government's current travel advice prevents mainstream tour operators running trips and invalidates the holidaymaker's insurance - Travel is unlike other industries – it sells dreams (5/8/2020)
The Man Who Pays His Way: After a select committee grilling, Simon Calder looks to an more thoughtful industry when it finally begins to recover - Coronavirus: Rail services set to increase this month as lockdown measures are eased (5/8/2020)
'We want to help Britain return to what we knew as normal before the pandemic,' says head of train drivers' union - Coronavirus: Can airports and airlines ensure passenger safety? (5/5/2020)
Passenger aviation and social distancing are fundamentally incompatible - Virgin Atlantic: Things may look bad for aviation, but we will fly again (5/6/2020)
Plane Talk: Even during these darkest of times for aviation, there are opportunities for the bold - Coronavirus: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to establish Baltic 'travel bubble' as restrictions eased (5/7/2020)
Baltic states agreed each 'had successfully managed the spread of Covid-19 and trust each other's health care systems' - Heathrow expansion: Ruling that third runway is 'unlawful' to be appealed at Supreme Court (5/7/2020)
Airport chief told MPs earlier this week that expansion might not be back on the agenda for a decade - Coronavirus: Heathrow to start temperature checks on arriving passengers (5/6/2020)
Screening technology will be trialled in Terminal 2, without passengers being aware they are being checked - Coronavirus: Ireland could stay closed to Britons until later in the summer (5/7/2020)
Exclusive: Tourism 'recovery story' not expected till autumn - British Airways says no 'meaningful' return to service before July (5/7/2020)
'We will adapt our operating procedures to ensure our customers and our people are properly protected in this new environment,' said Willie Walsh, IAG chief executive - Caravan park challenge over coronavirus refunds advice (5/6/2020)
Competition authority guidance on effects of lockdown triggers controversy between parks and caravan owners - Virgin Atlantic to cut 3,150 jobs and stop flying from Gatwick (5/5/2020)
Airline plans to 'reshape and resize' the business - 'It has been so hard to be alone': Crew stuck on quarantine cruise ship forced to stay in cabins for nearly a month (5/5/2020)
'It's really hard for your mental health,' says crew member - Coronavirus: 'UK aviation is facing a death spiral', pilots' union warns (5/4/2020)
Balpa calls on government to bring in a moratorium on job cuts