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19 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Breaking: European Union 🇪🇺 has agreed to reopen its borders to ALL travellers who are fully vaccinated (with a vaccine certified in EU). Here’s the initial announcement ✅ ✈️ #COVID19 👇🏽
More: The new travel policy for fully-vaccinated travellers to EU could go into effect as early as next week, per European officials ✈️🇪🇺

EU has confirmed it will accept travellers who have full immunization from: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, AstraZeneca and Sinopharm vaccines 💉
In addition to the new ‘fully-vaccinated’ traveller policy, a new & expanded list of safe countries (based on epidemiological criteria) will be finalised on Friday.

Travellers from this specific ‘safe list’ will be able to travel to EU even if they are not fully vaccinated ✅
More: EU ambassadors have agreed that fully-vaccinated travellers will be able to visit European Union countries without testing or quarantine (but expect some to continue with testing should they wish to take a more conservative approach) 🇪🇺 #travel

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7 May
England + intl travel👇🏽

🟩 Test before/after travel to England, no quarantine: 12 countries: Portugal, Gibraltar & others

🟨 Tests before/after travel + home quarantine. Spain, France & others

🟥 Travel ban, hotel quarantine for Brits. Turkey, UAE, Maldives, S America & others
As expected, majority of ‘Green List’ countries are countries banning travellers 🟩⛔️

Portugal, Israel, Gibraltar, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Brunei, Falklands, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore. Ascension Islands, Tristan da Cunha, St Helena, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands
Despite @GrantShapps stating “you can go to these countries” — it’s important to remember this green/amber/red list 🚦does NOT determine where Brits can travel to.

It determines what measures passengers (Brits, tourists, etc) face when they travel FROM those countries TO the UK.
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7 May
TODAY: UK government will reveal green/amber/red ✈️🚦list for all international travel to UK, from 17 May. A thread 👇🏽

🟩 Green: test before/after travel to UK, no quarantine
🟨 Amber: tests before/after, home quarantine
🟥 Red: ban on visitors, £1750 hotel quarantine for Brits
• Remember: UK’s upcoming green/amber/red list ✈️🚦does *NOT* determine where Brits can travel to.

Instead, it determines what measures/testing/quarantine passengers face (including Brits, tourists, business travellers, etc) will face when they travel FROM abroad TO the UK.
• Many places the UK will today categorise as ‘green’ or ‘amber’ continue to ban UK travellers...

- Spain travel restrictions on UK leisure travel is until May 31, at earliest ⛔️

- US has an ongoing travel ban on UK travellers ⛔️

- Australia & New Zealand are closed ⛔️
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14 Feb
Tomorrow: UK mandatory hotel quarantine for so-called ‘red list’ arrivals begins ✈️

That’s 55 days since S African #COVID19 variant was detected in UK ⏳

1 year since “global health emergency” declared 🗓⚠️

(25+ million already arrived: no tests/screening for any passengers)
There are no direct passenger flights from “red list” nations — but people are still arriving via transit airports 🔀

UK Border Force will need to check passport data, interview, & locator form to determine who’s been where. They’ve already warned this will not happen for all.
Heathrow - Britain’s hub airport - has this weekend warned “significant gaps remain and we are yet to receive the necessary reassurances”

There’s still a lot unknown: Border Force want e-gates open. But if they are open, ‘red list’ passengers can glide through, undetected.
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24 Jan
UK government is set announce mandatory hotel quarantine for passenger arrivals, one whole year into this #COVID19 crisis.

During this next phase, measures (testing, screening) must *finally* be established so that UK can manage inbound/outbound passenger flow for the long term.
A year ago, I held several discussions with foreign governments, most concluded: coexistence is key. Air travel + #COVID19 can coexist if measures are in place

What UK aviation now needs 👇🏽

• Financial package to ensure there’s an aviation sector on the other side of this.
• Dedicated financial relief & support to wider aviation sector (not just airlines) that’s suffering because of the way in which #COVID19 has exploded across Britain

• Measures to stop UK exporting the new strain. 40+ countries have cut air travel ties with UK for a reason!
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9 Jan
Breaking: A passenger Boeing 737 is missing after losing contact with Indonesian authorities shortly after take off from Jakarta airport.

Sriwijaya Air flight #SJ182 is a 737-500 (classic narrow body airline jet) — the aircraft in question is 26 years old. More to follow.
Sriwijaya Air is Indonesia’s third largest airline, listed as a “Category 1” airline, the country’s highest safety rating

@flightradar24’s ADS-B data from #SJ182 shows the aircraft losing “more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than 1 minute” less than 5 mins after departure
Breaking: Indonesia's transport ministry confirms a search and rescue operation is now under way after contact was lost with the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737, flight #SJ182 ⚠️
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7 Jan
Breaking: UK will finally require ALL passengers travelling to UK to present a negative #COVID19 result (obtained 72 hrs before travel) in order to be permitted to depart to UK ✈️⚠️

Almost 1 year into the crisis, this is an easy mandate that shifts testing responsibility abroad.
While UK will continue its – no testing on arrival, no checks & no health screening for any passengers – position, the new “must test before you travel to UK” means government is finally following the long-list of countries who adopted this testing mandate multiple months ago ✈️
Over 50 countries around the world - from Kuwait to Colombia - have cut air travel ties with Britain due to ‘out of control’ #COVID19 spread

One diplomat told me tonight “UK should test to stop export, it is most infected country in the world per capita, not just prevent import”
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