UK Government to ban international travel and domestic hotel stays ‘except for work’

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• patrick C says:

  1 Nov1 November 07:19

  One would have thought that yhere is now enough evidence that travel bans are absolutely stupid unless you have almost no cases in country.
  It’s about killing your economy with nothing in return in terms of public health benefits.

  Just another dumb British idea. No European country is doing this anymore, as they are getting smarter…

  • meta says:

    1 Nov1 November 07:43

    Germany banned overnight hotel stays for leisure. Every country has a different response. Slovakia for example is testing all citizens aged 10+. Taiwan, Singapore Japan have banned incoming passengers from the majority of the world. Until vaccine is found and distributed globally or virus dies down substantially then chaos will continue as well as various travel rules/bans.

    • Axel says:

      1 Nov1 November 09:03

      Yes agreed, but you could add Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong have setup green lanes to allow business travel between countries to allow the economy to breathe.

      • meta says:

        1 Nov1 November 09:26

        There is no ban in the UK on business travel and there won’t be like.

    • John says:

      1 Nov1 November 11:09

      As Joe Biden would say it’s racist to ban people based on their country of origin.

      • James says:

        1 Nov1 November 20:19

        But that’s not what he said, is it? Like Trump, don’t let facts get in the way of your school yard bullying.

• S879 says:

  1 Nov1 November 07:37

  A friend who was planning to leave on 4th November for Lahore (Pakistan) after her daughter’s exam has told me that BA is not letting her book her flight back till after 2nd December. Whoever is planning to travel before the 5th in general needs to be prepared for the likelihood of return flights to be cancelled whether its business or leisure. I guess if there isn’t much uptake it’s not worth BA’s while anyway.

  • Zain says:

    1 Nov1 November 09:00

    Does she have to fly BA? QR is a OW partner so your friend could fly out on BA and return on QR. I can see loads of availability on QR LHE-DOH-LHR all through November.

    • S879 says:

      1 Nov1 November 11:12

      Thanks, she doesn’t want to transit anywhere so will postpone. I put the info for others as many are looking to fly before the 5th but they must factor in the risk of return flights being cancelled.

• AndyW says:

  1 Nov1 November 08:00

  I know this news is travel related, and the whole subject certainly extremely decisive, but I do long for the days when articles were not just a load of people having a pop at each other in the comments…

  • Yuff says:

    1 Nov1 November 08:07

    Andy +1
    There are some very opinionated critics on both sides of the fence………unfortunately 😩

    • Adam says:

      1 Nov1 November 08:18

      Yes quite.

  • Josh says:

    1 Nov1 November 09:24

    Indeed. At least Twitter has a 240 character limit 😂

    • Alex Sm says:

      1 Nov1 November 10:27

      280

      • Josh says:

        1 Nov1 November 10:32

        280 then 😂 Ah yes, originally the limit was 140

        • Alex Sm says:

          2 Nov2 November 21:01

          Yes, it was 140, but not 240 🙂

• ringingup says:

  1 Nov1 November 08:29

  I have a self catering stay in the UK, near London, coming up next week, starting before Thursday. The plan was always to just relax and work from somewhere different, enjoy some walks in the proximity of the house, not meet anyone and not go out for meals, etc. So from a personal and societal point of view, the impact was always going to be pretty low.

  How do you think the lockdown will impact stays due to start before Thursday? I’m wondering if a host would be under the obligation of not letting a property during the lockdown period even if the stay began before lockdown.

• Hana says:

  1 Nov1 November 08:30

  Hmm, I was planning to go to Anitgua mid November. I assume BA will be cancelling flights?

  • Anna says:

    1 Nov1 November 09:23

    The devil is going to be in the detail, as they say. I don’t think anything is certain until the measures are voted on on Wednesday. Remember all the issues there were last time – can you drive to your place of exercise, are demonstrations allowed etc? Personally I would be getting in the queue to speak to BA and ask if they have decided yet!

    • Amanda Joness says:

      1 Nov1 November 11:03

      … Ditto… As yet unable to speak to BA.
      I’m guessing they will wait until its all set in stone by debate In Parliament.
      We will have to wait and see.

  • Lady London says:

    1 Nov1 November 14:09

    if a route has cargo on it then its still likely to have flights running. For routes that carry just people then many fewer planes needed to run, which could become zero.with extreme restrictions.

• Henry Young says:

  1 Nov1 November 08:51

  It’s all divide and conquer across multiple dimensions guys. And you keep on sucking it up. Stand back, take a deep breath and look at what’s really happening. Follow the money. Cui bono ? What your government tells you is seldom the truth.

  I don’t aim to give you any answers in saying this, but to at least prompt some of you to rediscover that lost art of “critical thinking”.

  And a warm, heart felt hello to any 77th-ers on this forum – you know who you are 😉

  • Anna says:

    1 Nov1 November 09:04

    Cui bono from the country being bankrupted – do tell?!

  • TripRep says:

    1 Nov1 November 10:10

    Quite literally keyboard warriors?

• Alex says:

  1 Nov1 November 09:32

  Great.. I’m moving to Dubai in a month for work, this could get interesting.

• J says:

  1 Nov1 November 09:47

  Highlighting 2nd December feels like the new ‘it’s only 3 weeks’ we heard a lot of in March. Is there any reason to expect this won’t be extended beyond the initial 4 weeks? I’m assuming it will see us through until at least late January, maybe (but hopefully not) with a short pause for Christmas.

  • Aston100 says:

    1 Nov1 November 09:53

    I’m sure there will be some confusing, contradictory and ill thought out exemption for Christmas to be announced in due course.

    • Chrisasaurus says:

      1 Nov1 November 10:51

      Indeed, except substitute announced for leaked…

    • Lady London says:

      1 Nov1 November 14:11

      +1
      It wont make sense medically but politically there would be much motivation

  • Axel says:

    1 Nov1 November 10:34

    Yep. First time around you could only meet in a park or garden with up to 6 people not from your household after 10 weeks, and non-essential stores only re-opened after 12 weeks.

    In this case that would mean mid-January and the start of February.

    Hopefully it’s ‘just a month’ but I suspect it will be significantly longer.

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