Travel news latest: Canary, Balearic and Greek islands in running for green list

Spanish and Greek islands could possibly be added to the UK’s inexperienced checklist as quickly as June 8, ministers have suggested, even when their mainlands keep amber.

Robert Courts, the aviation minister, instructed MPs that the Authorities would deal with in style vacationer islands with low Covid charges individually “the place doable” because it prepares to disclose the subsequent tranche of locations that could possibly be added to the quarantine-free list at the beginning of subsequent month.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps instructed the BBC’s Immediately programme on Wednesday: „I’ve all the time stated that after all it’s fascinating the place an plane can fly direct to an island, for instance, and that island is subsequently accessible in that you simply don’t must go through the mainland, that you simply take a look at that in a different way. That’s what we did final yr as effectively.“

This could put the Canary, Balearic and Greek islands – all boasting eligible information for the inexperienced checklist – again on the map for holidays forward of the summer time season, along with different Mediterranean and even Caribbean isles. 

Frontrunners are additionally understood to incorporate Malta, Grenada, Cayman Islands, Fiji, British Virgin Islands, Finland and Caribbean islands thought to incorporate Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis, Turks and Caicos and Anguilla.

In much less promising information, Austria has joined Germany in banning direct flights from the UK over considerations on the rising variety of instances of the Indian variant.

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