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The travel industry got a real dose of adrenalin yesterday when the Canary Islands were removed from the list of places that we couldn’t visit.

Four of the big companies, British Airways, easyJet, Jet 2 and TUI have announced they won’t charge change fees.

Passengers could pay the money across and find they will still not gain entry.

With the resurgence of COVID-19 cases, half-term and autumn breaks seem off the agenda.

Although Mexico remains on the Irish and British government’s “don’t visit” list which effectively stops visiting travelling there, the state of Yucatán has re-opened to visitors.

If anything the role of any secretary of state is to go into bat for all electors and the population as a whole and how transport affects them.

Why can’t the rulings about data breaches always include a compensation sum to the people affected?

This will be the last weekly update on holiday possibilities just because it is looks irrelevant for the foreseeable future.

The UK has 2.6 deaths per 100,000 of population and Ireland 2.9. Only Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden have lower figures.

The annual prize has been a muted affair this year with probably very few people even aware that it was still running.

For us to have a break be it a day out, a weekend-break or a longer holiday, travel companies are going to have to be a bit more inventive otherwise they may go under.

Science drives my thinking too and my thinking is I am too confused by all this creation of confusion to do anything about travelling at all.

Either you want visitors in which case you have to make travel and entry a little easier or you refuse entry to visitors for a bit longer.

Calder’s reaction has been much more thoughtful and responsible that mine might have been.

Following is news from some destinations Britons and Irish visit Cyprus – The authorities in the north of Cyprus are allowing arrivals from the UK. You must show a negative COVID-19 PCR test result (done between 0 – 120 hours prior to the time of the flight) on arrival. You must then enter authority-assigned quarantine facilities for 7 days. A second PCR test will be carried out at the end of the quarantine period. All travellers should be aware that if other passengers on your
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The travel industry has urged governments to support regional no-go areas rather than blocking off whole countries. This thinking grew in intensity after the UK blocked the whole of Portugal rather than the regions where the pandemic was strongest. So the Algarve, the Azores and Madeira suffered from not having British tourists despite having a low incidence. The same happened in Spain where the Canaries and the Balearics had few cases compared to the mainland. Now countries are opting for more regional targeting so Britons
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At present the airport – and all airports – ought to dreaming up ideas to encourage us to use them not trying to drive us away.

Communication with customer seemed sadly lacking. That is what travel companies need to learn

The rest of us will have more confidence that the Venice that has attracted tens of millions of us to visit will be around a bit longer.

There are thousands of Victorian buildings, and thousands more of buildings from previous times but are they worth saving?

Last week, the World Aviation Festival was held. Usually thousands meet to discuss everything from airports, airlines, retailing to passengers, sustainability and green flight plans, trading, passenger satisfaction and expectations and problems. The problem this year is the virus and how to navigate through it. China was the first nation to be severely hit by the virus, the first to impose what seemed then to be drastic measures to curb it and the first to come out of it. Since that time, it appears they
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Poland and Turkey are now off-limits. But Scottish residents won’t have to quarantine on return from the Azores and Madeira

When we last conducted this survey at the end of May, the response was so significant that other travel and news publications ran the story.

But from now on it has become doubly important that you check your policies to make sure that you are covered for at least the following which all related to the coronavirus;

Perhaps each site should have a stone where people can carve their initials.

At any other time I would be a supporter of such a view, my long-held thoughts being that travel does indeed broaden the mind

This survey reinforces the fact that confidence is going to be a major hurdle to overcome.

This year there seems to be no reason to celebrate travel, just to remember how it was and the many people who have lost their jobs.