Airlines now face a return to the uncertainty of shifting rules and public-health developments amid Omicron coronavirus variant
While the full impact will get clearer over coming days, ‘this will be problematic for business travel’Airlines, passengers and businesses scrambled to respond to a deluge of travel restrictions announced over the weekend to slow the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant.
Spain and Switzerland tightened access for arrivals from Britain, whose travel comeback has quickly been thrown into reverse. UK low-cost carrier EasyJet said Sunday its flight schedule was operating as normal, “however we continue to monitor the situation closely”. “Christmas bookings will obviously be weaker than we had expected prior to the omicron variant,” he said. “As you add barriers to travel such as the PCR tests and isolation requirements, all that does is changes the incentives. Airlines now face a return to the uncertainty of shifting rules and public-health developments that threw customer plans into chaos and undermined demand earlier in the pandemic.
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