Airports and airlines say they are having the busiest weekend since the start of the pandemic, but continued restrictions on travel mean this summer season will once again be far from normal for the industry. Firms believe that the Government’s unpredictable approach to travel – best demonstrated when it threw Portugal on the “Amber List” with very little notice, ruining the holiday plans of thousands of Brits – has damaged confidence. BBC News has the story.
Heathrow Airport expects 60,000 passengers to depart daily, while Gatwick says it expects 250 flights a day – up from a low of just 15.
But the numbers are still far below pre-pandemic levels.
Spain is the top destination for U.K. travellers, followed by Greece.
After 18 months in which the travel industry has been devastated by the pandemic, companies including Easyjet, TUI and Jet2, as well as major airports, said they would have more passengers this weekend than at any time since the pandemic began.
Air travel companies said the decision to allow fully vaccinated travellers to visit amber list countries without quarantining on their return had encouraged people to consider more destinations.
Manchester Airport said it was “an encouraging but tentative step towards recovery”, but it said the Government’s “chaotic and unpredictable” approach to international travel had damaged confidence.
Easyjet suggested the vaccination programme had given the travel industry a boost, with many Britons saying they were much more likely to be willing to travel once they had been double-vaccinated and that travel had been a major motivation for getting jabbed for many of them.
At Gatwick on Friday, several passengers said they were travelling for the first time since the pandemic began.
Many were heading on beach holidays, while others were visiting family for the first time in many months. …
Laura, on her way to the 70th birthday party of a friend in Northern Ireland, said: “It’s just so exciting to get on an aeroplane again.”
But she said it was sad to see the airports still with several empty car parks and closed terminals.
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You can scroll through the Our World in Data page below but this tiny country with 2.64 million people, 372 dead *from* Covid ( so that’ll be an over-estimation no doubt ) and only approx 25% have had at least 1 death jab, therefore if the intention in locking down was to get injections into as many arms as possible, TPTB failed miserably in their agenda here didn’t they? WTF were they thinking locking down and predictably decimating a country such as this, or any African nation come to that?? Absolutely crazy and demonstrably no benefits have been shown as a result, only devastation for these poor people who were barely scraping by as it is.
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/gambia
I am sure you will understand my response Mogs.
Then there is Burundi – current death toll from the ‘rona at 38. This hasn’t changed since August 2021.
All going nicely to plan.
The ‘theft of the commons’ (see Iain Davies) starts by enforcing indebtedness on countries. Once the debts prove to be unserviceable the country effectively belongs to the lenders and the real looting can begin.
Exactly the same process is occurring in Ukraine and many other countries will go the same way. The ridiculous spending during lockdowns such as Track and Trace, Nightingales, Eat out to Help Out, Furlough etc were simply ways of ensuring we ratcheted our debt levels. Now this unserviceable spending is being replaced by the blatant importation of economically useless migrants which are costing £6-7 million per day and fighting a war which has nothing to do with us and clearly with money the country cannot afford. At some point Fishy and Chunt will “sadly” have to declare the country bankrupt and then we will no longer be sovereign and that’s it. The pretence of democracy will be removed and everyone will do as they are told.
There will be no recovery from this scenario short of revolution and bloodshed.
If you are correct, remember that crossbows do not require a licence
Great post.. I agree with every word..
Thanks George.
Isn’t it great how souvereign all these pseudonations became after decolonization had happened? One could almost believe this was an early outburst of neoliberalism — Shrink the state! Privatize Africa!
Whilst we make aid reliant on Net Zero, China will offer aid them regardless of that – it’s obvious which way they will jump.
Sky News segment on bombing in Odessa & the clearing up of bomb damage in the aftermath. Sure wish that I had the super strength powers of the women clearing away the huge blocks of damaged building….
https://news.sky.com/video/ukraine-war-what-do-we-know-about-the-latest-attack-on-odesa-12926106
Lockdowns lovers and Net Zero maniacs don’t care about Africans.
They’ll let them die on the altar of Net Zero
These posters should be proof read at least three times. There is no excuse for errors of grammar or syntax.
Just as well the WHO and our Governments acted so swiftly to “save” the lives of very elderly people, some of whom got an extra few months of life …. but with no quality of life whatsoever.
Tragedy! This is obviously set to get worse if the new WHO proposals and International Health Regulations are implemented.
And you have not yet discussed the toll on education- without laptops….
Collateral Global has highlighted these issues for a few years now.
Unfortunately when I mentioned any of this to people in the U.K. their eyes glazed over.