LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of jobs, if
not millions, could be lost in Britain if aviation is not able
to resume quickly, the chief executive of London's Heathrow
Airport said on Monday.
Britain introduced a 14-day quarantine period for
international arrivals on Monday despite warnings from its
biggest airlines that the move will decimate domestic tourism
and damage exports.
"We cannot go on like this as a country," Chief Executive
John Holland-Kaye told Sky News. "We need to start planning to
reopen our borders.
"If we don't get aviation moving again quickly, in a very
safe way, then we are going to lose hundreds of thousands if not
millions of jobs in the UK just at the time when we need to be
rebuilding our economy."
(Reporting by Kate Holton; editing by Michael Holden)