Tens of thousands of jobs ‘at risk’ in the aviation sector
Tens of thousands of jobs are at risk in the aviation sector due to the pandemic and the government’s changes to travel rules in recent weeks, Airlines UK chief executive Tim Alderslade has said.
Among the contributing factors has been the “total disaster” of placing France on the “amber-plus” list, which scraps the quarantine exemption for the double-jabbed.
Speaking on Times Radio, Mr Alderslade said: “If you’ve been fully vaccinated, or you’re coming from a green country, there is not the need for a PCR test upon arrival when you’ve already done a pre-departure test.
“But we’ve somehow got to find a way of using the vaccine dividend that we built up, using the fact that case numbers are relatively stable, using the fact that when people come in to this country, the positivity rate, once they’re tested, is only 0.4% – so air travel is not a dangerous activity if you look at the numbers – to try to get more countries on that green list.
“Because of the way…
