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ARCHIVED - More ruined holidays for Brits as UK closes travel corridor to Canary Islands
UK removes Canary Islands from list of safe travel corridors as Brexit negotiations go to the wire
It's been a super stressful year for anyone trying to travel anywhere during the last few months as the coronavirus pandemic runs its course and British holidaymakers have suffered a stream of endless restrictions and seemingly endless changes.
Travellers have had to put up with their flights being cancelled by airlines or being forced to cancel themselves due to lockdowns, quarantines and restrictions; some readers have re-booked flights three times and are now facing the situation that their flight is still coming to Spain this winter, but the region they wish to fly to has closed its external borders for anything other than essential travel, which does not include travelling to a holiday apartment for a holiday and Spain has imposed the additional requirement of a PCR test. In addition the Foreign Office does still not recommend travelling to Spain and those who do, must quarantine on their return to the UK.
Is it worth all the hassle? No is the resounding answer from some travellers who have given up and accepted that their flight money has finally gone down the drain.
There was great excitement when the UK Government announced the opening of a safe travel corridor to the Canary Islands on 22nd October, following which thousands of UK citizens booked a bit of winter sun, much to the relief of the beleaguered airline industry which laid on extra flights to cope with the demand for bookings, then just a week later, the UK Govt. put the country back into lockdown and imposed a travel ban on international travel.
Following the end of lockdown, the travel ban was removed.
The travel corridor with the Canary islands was once again operational.
However, only a week later the UK Government has now decided that it is too risky for UK nationals to travel to the Canary islands due to “the increase in positive cases and positive weekly tests” on the islands.
It is difficult to understand what they mean by this as the Canary islands has consistently maintained the lowest coronavirus rates of any Spanish region throughout the last few weeks.
The accumulated incidence rate according to the Thursday figures published by the Spanish Health Ministry show the islands as having a rate of 96.92 cases per 100,000 of population over the last 14 days and a rate of 51.83 over the last 7 days.
From Saturday 12th December anyone returning from the Canary Islands will now have to self-isolate.
British transport secretary Grant Shapps said in a tweet “Data indicates weekly cases and positive tests are increasing in the CANARY ISLANDS and so we are REMOVING them from the #TravelCorridor list to reduce the risk of importing COVID-19. From 4am Sat 12 Dec, if you arrive from these islands you WILL need to self-isolate.”
This is devastating news for all those who have pre-booked a winter sun holiday on the basis that this was a safe travel corridor and they would not need to take further time off work or self-isolate and will not only ruin holidays for those who had booked a winter holiday but could also ruin their Christmas plans as well, as some will still be in isolation instead of spending precious time with their loved ones.
Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy The PC Agency, said to the BBC: "It's utterly devastating news for the thousands of British travellers who booked to go to the Canaries for Christmas and New Year.
"It's also a body blow for travel firms who'd seen an uplift in bookings for the winter after the Canaries were added to the travel corridor list.
"It now means thousands of refunds and lost bookings for a sector that needed the Canaries to help them recover."
Airline Easyjet chief executive Johan Lundgren said that the news would be "disappointing for many customers booked to travel to the Canary Islands from the UK in the coming weeks."
Customers wishing to transfer their flights without a fee must do so within a week, he said.
Sadly it seems, the thousands of holidaymakers who had planned to snatch a bit of precious winter sun at Christmas are now left high and dry by yet another snap decision and the airline sector must yet again deal with the administrative nightmare of holiday cancellations and re-booked flights.
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