Britain reopens to large parts of the world but new headache looms
02 August 2021 - 17:14A British Airways passenger aircraft on the tarmac at London Heathrow Airport. Picture: BLOOMBERG/ HOLLIE ADAMS
“Very, very excited. It means the world,” said Sue Blake, as she waited to greet her son, daughter-in-law and grandson who had flown in from New York and who she last saw two years ago. Watching the hugs and tears in the arrivals hall, Heathrow CEO John Holland-Kaye urged Britain to remove barriers to travel, not add to them, amid speculation that the government was poised to impose more rules.Britain, where the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has nearly reached 130,000, reopened its borders to large parts of the world on Monday, scrapping quarantine for fully vaccinated arrivals from the EU, excluding France, and the US.
“We just need to keep things simple. We need to build confidence in travel,” Holland-Kaye said when asked about the reports of another rule change.
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