Right from the start, the UK’s airports have consistently supported measures that protect public health. This is despite knowing the financial pain additional travel restrictions would bring to our businesses. In many cases, we have led the way in pulling industry and Government together to work on future measures to enable travel to resume safe … Read more
‘A complete lack of Covid-19 measures’ at an airport on the paradise archipelago of Zanzibar has left a hygiene audit team shocked. Respected UK-based air transport rating agency Skytrax said that Abeid Amani Karume International Airport was ‘failing on Covid-19 safety protocols’ after it assessed measures and standards at the airport earlier this month. It … Read more
Airports could close after Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend all of Britain’s quarantine-free travel corridors – as move deepens crisis faced by travel and aviation industries Anyone arriving in the UK will have to produce a negative coronavirus test All flights from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde have been banned The PM’s announcement has prompted … Read more
Heathrow Airport workers are to go on strike next month over a dispute about plans to ‘fire and rehire’ 4,000 employees on reduced pay packets. Members of Unite, the UK’s main aviation union, voted 85 per cent in favour of industrial action that will involve firefighters, engineers, campus security, baggage operations, operational and airside workers. The … Read more
Symptom- and temperature-based screenings at US airports are ineffective at detecting cases of coronavirus, a new report finds. Between January 17 and September 13, more than 766,000 travelers were evaluated at 15 airports across the US. Of that figure, just nine people went on to test positive for COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and … Read more
Up to 10,000 people have booked holidays in a day ahead of the second national lockdown which will see borders slammed shut from tomorrow night. Holiday firms are reporting sales surged by a quarter since last week as Britons capitalise on 11th-hour deals. It comes after package holiday companies were accused of illegally withholding £1billion … Read more
English airports could be mothballed amid looming ‘hammer blow’ from lockdown – as ministers face renewed demands to support the travel industry England’s looming lockdown includes a ban on foreign holidays and staycations This has been described as a ‘hammer blow’ to an already hard-hit travel sector Industry figures have called for measures including abolition of … Read more
Almost 200 European airports facing insolvency in the coming months unless passenger traffic recovers Airports body ACI Europe said airports at risk are mainly smaller, regional ones It added that closures to them would have an ‘outsized impact on local jobs’ Passenger traffic at European airports fell 73 per cent year-on-year in September By Jennifer … Read more
Wayne and Coleen Rooney’s £20m new dream home is right under the flight-path of Britain’s third busiest airport, MailOnline can reveal. Despite its idyllic location in the Cheshire countryside, the six-bedroom mansion is barely three miles from the runway of Manchester Airport and aircraft noise will be a constant feature. Even in the surrounding fields … Read more
Coronavirus testing at airports is FINALLY set to begin: Screening plane passengers for Covid-19 will start in two weeks… with aim of opening air corridor to US in time for Thanksgiving Regional air corridor to the US could potentially be in place by Thanksgiving Day Ministers are said to favour the German model of testing air … Read more