UK to close all travel corridors from Monday

[halcyondays]

Thank goodness. At last they’ve seen sense.

@kingat

Doesnt make any difference imo. How many countries were actually on the "safe" list? Having to have test is a big change, but then it takes few days to inubate, so also not really. Other countries just stop flights coming in, thats what closing border is. This doesnt make much difference.

About 60 countries were on the safe list. More than that, prior to removal of Brazil, Chile etc recently.

travel corridor list

I can't see why we don't adopt the Australian approach. Escorted off the flight, onto a coach, taken to a hotel, told to stay in your room for 2 weeks and you have to pay for it yourselves.

They don’t track your phone signal

I quarantined after a holiday in October. No one contacted me, not even once! I stuck to the quarantine but could very easily not have done, no one monitored it at all

@trappedsincesundaymorn

I can't see why we don't adopt the Australian approach. Escorted off the flight, onto a coach, taken to a hotel, told to stay in your room for 2 weeks and you have to pay for it yourselves.

Ah but people in the UK think the government should pay for everything and if they don’t they will stamp and stamp and post nasty comments online.

There was some woman on BBC article moaning about being stuck in Brazil, she had gone to see her family (she lives in UK). I have no sympathy honestly. People shouldn't be travelling for non essential purposes.

The travel corridor closure thing really isn't a very big change.

Agree that we should be using mandatory quarantine hotels like eg Australia, Taiwan, and should have been since March last year.

Instead you get government bowing to whatever lobby persuaded them not to, so the other 99% of the population / economy suffers for months if not years on end. Idiocy.

It was pointless just banning flights from Portugal. You could just hop over the border and catch one from spain and no one would be any the wiser. Same goes with most other countries.

It should have happened in January. Remember those pictures of that coach load of people back from China, sent straight into quarantine, everyone wearing hazmat suits?

Meanwhile the back door was wide open and it had been here for weeks. They didn't stop people come in from northern Italy even though they knew it was there. That's how it arrived in my town.

This is how NZ started.

They may make a public example of some cheeky quanratine cheating fuckers then "reveal" we need hotel quarantine. Hopefully we'll have the army run it - NZ learned the hard way that this isn't a job for civil servants.

Fingers crossed and we'll have the border closed to leisure and 99.9% of business travel within 2 weeks. Before we start, yes, freight accompanied by a driver travelling solo in a cab is low risk and absoutely fine. Then let's make the most of our vaccination programme.

There was some woman on BBC article moaning about being stuck in Brazil, she had gone to see her family (she lives in UK). I have no sympathy honestly. People shouldn't be travelling for non essential purposes.

Imagine not seeing your family for over a year. There's a risk going anywhere at the moment, but she didn't know that was going to happen.

The travel corridor closure thing really isn't a very big change

A good stab at a winning headline though
Except in perhaps Dubai and the Caribbean they know perfectly well few are on holiday right now, so they play at being decisive in the hope of removing restrictions in the summer and enjoying "Boris saved our holiday!!" articles

Cynical, moi?

It should have happened in January. Remember those pictures of that coach load of people back from China, sent straight into quarantine, everyone wearing hazmat suits?

Don't get me started on the maskless driver next to hazmat suit minder, driver and bus given a quick shower and both back into service the next day. Madness.

@trappedsincesundaymorn

I can't see why we don't adopt the Australian approach. Escorted off the flight, onto a coach, taken to a hotel, told to stay in your room for 2 weeks and you have to pay for it yourselves.

Yes. With the charge for the hotel being high.

Should have done this from the start. So many won’t stop travelling but this would have curbed many from going away on holiday.

• They don’t track your phone signal

I quarantined after a holiday in October. No one contacted me, not even once! I stuck to the quarantine but could very easily not have done, no one monitored it at all*

People could very easily go out and just not take their phone with them.

Imagine not seeing your family for over a year. There's a risk going anywhere at the moment, but she didn't know that was going to happen.

She must be fairly dim if it didn't even occur to her that borders could shut in a pandemic involving widespread border closure, when she was visiting a country absoutely rife with it, from another country absolutely rife with it.

People could very easily go out and just not take their phone with them

Or just with a burner phone for emergencies ...

@PicsInRed Oh I do agree that going anywhere overseas at any time in the last 12 months was a very big risk. Just we have family abroad. We had a baby in June. She hasn't met her grandma yet and we've no idea when she will. Then you have people with ill relatives. No idea of her particular situation. It's people risking it for a week in the sun I can't really understand, and it is, or was until very recently, still happening.

A great decision at last... Do all these rules apply,for all those wealthy people , as in the celebrity types, who have their own private jets and go all over the place.

1forAll74 according to gov.uk no leisure flying is currently permitted; however business flights are, so I imagine there'll be a lot of loopholes and fudging of the regs

I expect the real issue will be around enforcement though - and if that's not in place it quickly turns into "anything goes"

There is plenty of people flying for pleasure though, just recently there were pics from Stanstead were passengers complained all flights were arriving at the same time and it was so busy. As with all these rules noone is enforcing them and a lot of people dont care any more

SnoozyLou

I understand, having a lot of skin in this game myself (I'm Kiwi, but in the UK). Saying that, and knowing what it means for me, I say close the border.

It sucks.

You're right, kingat, but I think the PP was referring to private flights (as in someone with their own aircraft)?

Somehow I can't quite see King Whatsit from Wherever being subjected to the same requirements as the rest of us ... or even megarich celebs with lawyers on speed dial, come to that

You're right, kingat, but I think the PP was referring to private flights (as in someone with their own aircraft)?

That's also how I understood it - it's often called recreational flying/aviation

www.caa.co.uk/Our-work/Newsroom/COVID-19-guidance-for-commercial-and-general-aviation/

@1forAll74

A great decision at last... Do all these rules apply,for all those wealthy people , as in the celebrity types, who have their own private jets and go all over the place.

Even the private jet brigade have to make arrangements to go through both customs and immigration formalities somehow/somewhere on arrival in the UK and elsewhere.

The penalties for not doing so can be quite eye watering.

They may make a public example of some cheeky quanratine cheating fuckers then "reveal" we need hotel quarantine. Hopefully we'll have the army run it - NZ learned the hard way that this isn't a job for civil servants.

Chances of the above happening are verging towards zero I would say.