IAG boss warns govt not to put Portugal back on quarantine list
IAG chief executive Willie Walsh is warning that removing Portugal from the list of destinations exempt from the UK’s 14-day quarantine requirement will cause ‘chaos and hardship’ for holidaymakers. The boss of British Airways’ parent company accused the government of using ‘arbitrary statistics to effectively ban 160 countries’ as the rate of Covid-19 cases in Portugal topped 20 per 100,000 residents, which is likely to trigger the reintroduction travel restrictions by the UK government. Read more.
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