The Metro says the government has scrapped a piece of Covid-19 travel guidance which blocked people from getting insurance for destinations around the world.
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The Independent says passengers who were unable to travel on their British Airways or Ryanair flights because of lockdown rules will not be able to claim refunds.
The Daily Mirror says British holidaymakers have taken a big step closer to normality after travel rules changed from 4am today.
The Metro says the government is planning to return international travel to as close to normal as it has been since the pandemic began.
The Sun says AIRLINES won’t have to refund Brits who had their flights cancelled due to lockdown.
The Guardian says England’s new Covid travel rules and refusal to recognise vaccines administered across huge swaths of the world have sparked outrage
France24 says the US will re-open to air passengers from China, India, Britain and other European countries who have received vaccines.
Two new Tube stations have opened in the London Underground’s first major expansion since the late 1990s.
The i says a scientist advising the Government has accused ministers of “abandoning” the Covid testing system for international travel
New covid travel rules, no PCR test and an overhaul of the travel traffic light system have been simplified in England with a single red…
BBC News says changes to the rules on international travel are expected to be announced by the UK government later.
The Metro says the current rules for international travel are set to be torn up, with a new system to be announced within weeks.
The Metro says the current traffic light system under coronavirus rules could soon disappear in favour of a new two-tier arrangement, sources have indicated.
The Sun says FRUSTRATED Heathrow passengers are facing “horrific” queues for a sixth day running with the chaos spreading to Manchester Airport.
The i says Australian airline Qantas aims to restart flights to and from Britain in mid-December, in plans linked to the Covid vaccine roll-out in Australia
Canada and Denmark have been added to the UK’s green list – meaning they will not need to self-isolate upon arrival in the UK.
Heathrow Airport has urged the US to lift its restrictions on UK travellers. The airport has also reported an improvement in passenger numbers last month.
The i says hopeful UK travellers are already changing their plans ahead of this week’s expected travel update amid speculation that Jamaica and Morocco could be added to the red list.
Experts have predicted a number of Caribbean islands are at risk of being added to the UK’s travel red list in the next travel update.
Britain is set for a 12-day heatwave with temperatures expected to hit 27C making the UK hotter than the Algarve.
The i says the latest update to the UK’s traffic light travel restrictions came on Wednesday 4 August, with movement on all three lists.
Fully jabbed people can now visit France without quarantining on their return to the UK, following the latest update to the UK travel rules that came into force at 04:00 BST.
The Times says Spain will not be placed on the travel red list, because of a significant fall in cases and concerns that there are not enough hotel rooms to quarantine holidaymakers returning to England.
BBC News says a proposal to create an “amber watch-list” of countries at risk of moving to red in the travel traffic light system has been abandoned, a government source has told the BBC.
An extra 17 countries should be added to the travel green list at the next government review later this week.