Spain To Lift Entry Ban From UK On March 30th Spain will on March 30th lift restrictions on arrivals from Britain that have been in place since December to prevent the spread of new coronavirus strains, government spokeswoman Maria Jesus Montero said today, Tuesday. Passengers traveling to Spain from the UK will have to show a negative PCR test taken 72 hours before travel. Restrictions on arrivals from Brazil and … Read More
American Airlines Restarting Multiple Transatlantic Routes Including Madrid And Barcelona In encouraging news for international travel, American Airlines is increasing its Summer schedule by restarting ten routes to the US from airports in the UK and Europe. These include flights from major travel hubs including Barcelona El Prat, Dublin, Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Madrid Barajas, Milan Malpensa, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Rome Fiumicino. As part of American’s alliance with Alaska … Read More
Iceland Opens Borders To All Vaccinated Tourists Iceland has now swung open its doors to welcome all vaccinated travellers. Beginning 18 March, all arrivals with proof of vaccination will be admitted, extending the policy worldwide from the previous rule allowing in only vaccinated travellers from the European Schengen zone. It now allows citizens from major source markets the UK and US.. “Our experience and data so far … Read More
Heathrow Faces 23 days Of Strikes From Easter Heathrow faces the threat of 41 strikes over 23 days starting over the Easter long weekend. The series of spring walkouts by members of the Unite union as part of a long-running dispute are due to start on Good Friday (April 2) and continue until April 25. The industrial strike action will involve engineering, airside operations, landside operations, fire service, … Read More
European Commission Lays Out Health Certificate Proposals The European Commission has laid out proposals to create a Digital Green Certificate to facilitate “safe free movement” within the EU during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Digital Green Certificate will act as proof a person has been vaccinated against Covid-19, received a negative test result or recovered from having had the virus. It will record if a person has received a Covid-19 … Read More
Virgin Atlantic Makes Transatlantic Reopening Plea A Year After US Borders Shut Virgin Atlantic is urging the reopening of UK and US borders to enable vital transatlantic flights to resume. The call came exactly a year since the US closed its borders to UK and Irish citizens and the week that the airline secured £160 million in additional funding in the face of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. North Atlantic routes represented around 70% of … Read More
Jet2 Predicts ‘Sunnier Skies’ Ahead As Customer Confidence Rises Customer confidence in travelling overseas this summer has returned strongly, according to Jet2 and Jet2holidays. The UK’s second largest travel and airline group predicted “sunnier skies” ahead as it marked a year since the government first advised against all non-essential travel overseas in response to the Covid crisis. Travel confidence has returned strongly over the past several weeks on the … Read More
Brussels Weighs Up Plan For Covid-19 Vaccine Certificates Travel to and within the European Union this summer could be opened up if Brussels agrees plans today (Wednesday) for Covid-19 vaccine certificates. The European Commission’s plan for a ‘digital green certificate’ will be a proof of vaccination, immunity and test results, preventing the need for quarantines or travel bans. Spain, Greece, Italy and other Mediterranean countries will be able … Read More
Portugal And Mauritius Removed From UK’s ‘Red List’ For Travel Portugal, including the islands of Madeira and the Azores, is to be removed from the ‘red list’ of countries from where visitors are subject to hotel quarantine restrictions from Friday. Indian ocean nation Mauritius is also to be moved as of 4am on March 19 in rules that apply only to England. While arrivals from these countries no longer have … Read More
Ryanair Extends Free Flight Change Policy Ryanair is extending its zero flight change fee for all customers who book before June 30. Passengers can move their travel dates twice at no cost until the end of October. The move comes as the budget carrier looks to encourage summer flight bookings in the expectation of travel restrictions starting to relax as vaccination programmes accelerate throughout Europe. Marketing director … Read More
Turkey To Welcome British Holidaymakers Without Vaccinations Turkey is ready to welcome British travellers as soon as international travel from the UK is allowed. Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said the country is prepared to accept Britons as Turkey will have all the necessary protocols in place to keep everyone safe. “We are working with the British authorities to ensure these necessary processes are world-class … Read More
Ryanair Adds New Greece Routes With UK travellers welcome in Greece from mid-May, demand for summer holidays has spiked. Ryanair hopes to meet that demand, and announced three new Greece routes set to begin on 1 July, as well as extra frequencies on other sunshine routes to Greece. The budget airline is launching flights from Stansted Airport to Santorini, Zakynthos and Preveza It has also … Read More