France will re-open its borders to UK holidaymakers and travellers, according to an article published in The Evening Standard and various other published news articles. Fully-vaccinated Britons can now enter the country from 14 January.
The article also said that Alexandre Holroyd, a French National Assembly member living in the UK had said that “significant easing of travel restrictions will be announced very soon” and that details will be confirmed “in the days to come”.
The update is being warmly received across the UK with Jet2.com – UK’s leading leisure airline – announcing that it will resume ski flights to Lyon, Chambery and Grenoble from 22nd January, in addition to ski flights already operating to Salzburg, Turin, Innsbruck and Barcelona (Andorra).
Jet2.com and Jet2CityBreaks will also resume flights and city breaks to Paris from 11 February. Other tour operators and ski holiday companies are also seeing an increase in bookings.
On 18 December, France introduced a ban on non-essential travel to and from the UK in an effort to slow the spread of Omicron. Restrictions were slightly relaxed last week.
At the moment, UK travellers allowed to enter France must show proof of a negative Covid test taken within 24 hours before departure, isolate for 48 hours upon arrival and then take another test.
