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Spotting green shoots
This morning easyJet gave a badly needed fillip to the travel industry by announcing that it flew in July with 85% of seats filled.
Weekly holiday review 31st July 2020
By The Editor
As we foretold earlier this week, each Friday for the next few weeks Just about Travel will look at some favourite holiday destinations overseas. The purpose is to see whether the number of cases of COVID-19 is increasing and thus might be liable to being
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Avoid mainland Spain?
By The Editor
Whether you travel to mainland Spain or any of its islands you will have to self-isolate for fourteen days upon your return.
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The future for high street travel agents
By The Editor
There will probably always be a core public for travel agency services but can the remaining travel agencies just rely on that shrinking number?
Spain – the implications for travel
By The Editor
Over the last month the biggest question considered by those in overseas travel is how to restore confidence in the eyes of you and I – the traveller and holidaymaker.
COVID-19 swab tests
By The Editor
Isn’t it time that a standardised period for taking such a test such as 24-48 hours before arrival is agreed by nations?
No Spanish holiday for Scots?
By The Editor
What’s the betting that, in a few days’ time, the Scottish government will say Scots can fly to Spain again.
To Australia in five hours
By The Editor
If it looks like a race to see which plane flies first both companies would probably deny the fact. But underneath, it is!
On the first weekend in August…
By The Editor
Judging by the reports of the first weekend business in August, there will be a holiday season this August after all
Spanish travel rules change again
By The Editor
Now all travellers from Spain must self-quarantine, the Canaries and Balearics included.
Awaiting a new passport?
By The Editor
What it has said is that those people who are travelling in the next fortnight or so will be treated more quickly than those whose travel plans are further ahead.
Fancy a citybreak?
By The Editor
Visitors to our major metropolitan areas are way down, even in London and Edinburgh, places that at this time of the year ought to be very busy.
Portugal misses out again
By The Editor
Why is Portugal not on our travel list when countries seemingly in a more toxic position remain.
You can go to Spain again
By The Editor
Scots can travel to the Canaries and enjoy Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Lanzarote and La Gomera again.
Best UK seaside resorts?
By The Editor
Thinking about it being at the bottom of such a list could be best. It means that it is unlikely that it would attract hordes of visitors.
Close a country or a region?
By The Editor
Both Spain and Portugal have expressed annoyance due to British advice against visiting both countries.
Just when you thought you could take a cruise…
By The Editor
The question cruise ship bosses will be asking themselves is whether these outbreaks will have any effect on the future for cruises.
What’s a person to do?
By The Editor
Some medical experts have urged people to use their own transport rather than public transport so what’s a person to do?
Looking after us in flight
By The Editor
The question is whether all airlines have such detailed plans.
