Posts Tagged ‘ coronavirus testing for travellers ’

The government announcement today of fines and prison sentences for those evading UK entry government lockdown rules is designed to scare us from breaking the rules.

Airports have a lot more thinking to do as they seem to be the pinch point between us wanting to fly and feeling safe to get on the plane.

What are airlines and airports doing to make people feel safe. Masks and distancing seem to be it.

We’ve had questions about the rules for travelling to Portugal and its islands so here is a summary.

Isn’t it time that a standardised period for taking such a test such as 24-48 hours before arrival is agreed by nations?

Not all countries want to see us yet and even if they do, there are obstacles making travel difficult.

Francina Armengol, the President of the Balearic Islands, said last Sunday that the EU should plan for quick airport tests either on departure by travellers so that destinations were aware that the traveller had a clean bill of health. Austria has also backed this idea and many other countries are considering such a unified scheme. It has already received the backing of one Spanish hotel chain that has hotels around the world – Melia Hotels. For such a plan to work, all EU countries would
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