British Airways is the first airline in the world to conduct a trial with medical tech company Canary Global, to assess how its Pelican Covid-19 Ultra Rapid Covid-19 test, which displays a result within 25 seconds, can play a role in opening up travel. BA flight and cabin crew will
Online travel agency, On the Beach, has taken the dramatic decision to take all holidays this summer off sale. Due to the continuing uncertainty and the market-wide “lack of appetite for booking amber destinations”, the travel company removed all holidays up until the end of August. “On the Beach will
The Spanish industry trade and tourism minister, Reyes Maroto, has suggested new EU rules could allow borders to reopen to the UK as early as 20th May. Spain currently resides on the UK government’s amber traffic light status from 17th May, however, Spanish officials believe an upcoming review of EU
Scotland will allow international travel to the 12 green list destinations from next week, following England’s announcement. Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, announced the relaxation of restrictions on Tuesday, confirming the adoption of the same traffic light system for categorising destinations outlined for England by UK transport secretary Grant Shapps
Virgin Atlantic and Prenetics will help remove the guesswork from travel this summer by offering customers at-home Covid-19 testing solutions, which give them easy and convenient access to the necessary testing for Virgin Atlantic destinations, where at-home tests are accepted. Bundles are based on the UK government’s travel traffic light
With international travel resuming next week, the demand to know which destinations travellers can expect to be open for summer holidays has significantly increased. Heathrow Airport has urged for a significant expansion of the green list which they believe is overly cautious, given the low-risk nature of some countries not
