Air travel dead.3 May 2020 16:43
Airline group says proposed quarantine will ‘effectively kill air travel’
Airlines have hit back at UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps’ suggestion that a compulsory 14-day quarantine could be imposed on anyone arriving in the country.
Industry group Airline UK, which represents British Airways, Easyjet, Virgin Atlantic, Ryanair and other UK-based airlines, said a 14-day quarantine period “would effectively kill air travel”.
Shapps told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that he was “actively looking at these issues”, so that when infection rates in the country are under control, “we’re not importing”.
Tim Alderslade, Airline UK chief executive, said a quarantine would “completely shut off the UK from the rest of the world when other countries are opening up their economies” and described the possible quarantine measure as a "blunt tool".