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Foreign Covid Rules “to Blame for Travel Chaos” at Airports

by Will Jones
8 June 2022 7:00 PM

Coronavirus rules put in place by foreign countries are to blame for delays at major U.K. airports, the Chairman of Parliament’s Transport Select Committee has said. The Telegraph has the story.

Huw Merriman said that airport staff were being overwhelmed by the number of documents they had to process for passengers flying to destinations which still have pandemic-related restrictions in place.

Mr Merriman, the Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle, said: “At Heathrow, 80% of their destination marketplace still have Covid conditions, so staff on the ground have to check those as well. All of this adds to a very lumpy picture for aviation and sadly it’s the travelling public that are impacted.”

Thousands of holidaymakers have had their flights cancelled or delayed  in recent weeks, as airlines struggle to meet a wave of demand for travel after two years of disrupted travel. 

A chronic shortage of staff is compounding the problem, as airlines let go of workers during the pandemic and are struggling to tempt them back into the industry.

Hard to believe the Covid travel restrictions in many countries are still in place. What exactly are the countries trying to achieve? Have they still not noticed the vaccinated carry the virus in large numbers? Do they intend the restrictions to be permanent? If not, when do they plan to axe them? The U.S. still has a complete ban on unvaccinated foreign citizens visiting the country. Crazy.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Air TravelAirport DisruptionCOVID-19Lockdown harmsTravel ChaosTravel Restrictions

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Julian
Julian
2 years ago

Simple – just don’t travel anywhere that requires papers, passes or any other covid nonsense. Plenty of countries fully open with no restrictions. Vote with your feet.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Exactly. Or drive on the slow roads. Sure, it takes more time, but it’s a whole lot nicer. Ferry ports do very little of the COVID crap, throughout the last two years the ports have been very light touch; freight, y’ see, they don’t dare cause shyte for truckers (apart from in Trudeau’s “Paradise”), and these days most of the truckers can’t speak a word of English or French so it would all be just too much hassle.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
2 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Actually it isn’t that simple.

If, like me, you live in a country that still has covid restrictions but want to travel to your home country then there is no other option than to comply with their travel rules.

Thus it is not that ‘simple’.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  Judy Watson

Where do you live, Judy?

Where is home?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Judy lives in Thailand, Marcus.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Ah, hmm.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

Can’t get to the US in our van anyway.

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
2 years ago

Yes, crazy. I also think the number of pilots and mechanics these airlines might have lost due to their vaccine mandates might be part of the issue.

More vaccinated employees are probably also coming down with Covid and can’t work or must quarantine. Of course, once upon a time, the vaccines were supposed to eliminate this possibility.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago

Turning up with the wrong documents doesn’t help either.

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James Leary #KBF
James Leary #KBF
2 years ago

 Total bollox. We flew unvaxxed to Nice yesterday, in theory necessitating LFTs the day before with corresponding email paperwork. Nobody at either end airport mentioned anything about them, didn’t look, didn’t care.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  James Leary #KBF

We have flown and driven throughout TheDeadliestPandemic™ and no officials with any real authority ever cared about any of it. Anywhere.

The airline/ferry port staff went through the motions, putting on a very convincing display of “checking things”, but I know for a fact that they didn’t (and couldn’t) actually check any of it.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

And we encountered a Hygiene Operative in Lisbon airport who was apparently very angry that we weren’t wearing our masks, but we just smiled. She may have smiled back, couldn’t tell.

And a lady selling train tickets in a station near Cascais got extremely angry when, from behind her enormous two-inch thick glass screen stretching wall to wall and desk to ceiling, she saw me enter without the nappy. Actually, by the end of the exchange, she was very, very angry. Screaming and shouting and foaming angry.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

I thought initially that there was only one face nappy visible in that photo.

Upon closer inspection, there are actually five!

STAY SAFE!

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