UK airline bosses have written to Boris Johnson insisting there is not enough evidence that imposing hotel quarantines on all travellers arriving into the country is necessary.
The chief executives of British Airways, easyJet and Virgin Atlantic were among those who signed the letter to the prime minister which also called for support to help the industry survive.the government would soon make an announcement on the policy - and that people should hold off on booking a summer holiday.
"An effective border closure risks impacting vital freight and PPE supplies, and jeopardising tens of thousands of jobs and the many businesses up and down the country that depend on aviation."Signatories include BA's Sean Doyle, Virgin's Shai Weiss and easyJet's Johan Lundgren as well as bosses from TUI, Loganair, Jet2 and industry body Airlines UK.
Travel industry insiders have been expecting an imminent decision on the quarantine policy - aimed at suppressing new variants of COVID-19 - but say there are different views within government on whether it should apply to all countries or only those from a proscribed list.
What effing numbers are they looking at, it's got to be the booking number it's definitely not the Death rate
How much more do they need never
WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO FLY ......UTTER MADNESS
Airlines started spreading the virus around the world,and still have their own interest ahead of the population.They are like any other employer and should be subjected to shutdown except food and medical supplies.The virus only get from one country to another via planes,
UK Airline bosses need to shut the heck up and deal with the fact we needed to impose these rules months ago. They either get on board to deal with this issue properly or flights abroad won't ever resume as we will be stuck as we are for years. 1918 pandemic lasted 4 years!
Not enough evidence? So I suppose there South African and Brazil variants just flew in via the stork? Honestly I can understand their frustration but on times you just can’t help but think
There's more evidence to support this than there is to close pubs and restaurants, just do it.
All they care about is money
Over 100 k deaths is evidence enough CloseTheBorders
The evidence is Australia and new Zealand
Let's hope the PM doesn't shows how spineless he is again by giving in to these 'airline bullies'. There is PLENTY of evidence to impose a quarantine policy, the greatest death rate in the world is only one. This quarantine should have been in place since last March.
there u go folks these aviation 🦠s add that 🇬🇧 got one of the biggest dual passport nationals in the works thus status quo but ofcource its Bojo aka 1 persons fault 👀🤔🤷♂️😷
Need to look at Australia...... yes there is
Are 100,000 dead people not enough? Measures such as quarantine should have been in place from the start.
crap thats a we need to keep border open to make money; want people to fly in no need to make lie up tell it as it is why do people want to say the truth
They literally have blood on their hand.
We have demanded a negative PCR test from travellers which brings us in line with the rest of Europe, just step up the checks on quarantining at home and use the hotel scheme for those without a uk address. Blanket quarantines at this stage of pandemic are jst political theatre
Shut the bloody airports. Its rather simple
Airline bosses who obviously don’t care that 100,000 people have died from Covid and happy to fly more virus infected selfish fools into the country without hotel quarantine! Get it done Boris and close the borders at the same time to anyone unless essential travel reasons!
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