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John Holland-Kaye says the Global Travel Taskforce report ‘gets the framework in place’ for a list of ‘green’ countries but ‘there are some challenges’


Holland-Kaye welcomes report but with caveats


Heathrow chief expects limited restart of travel from May 17. Ian Taylor reports Holland-Kaye suggested transport


The Global Travel Taskforce’s plans to relaunch international travel “don’t go as far” as the industry needs but mark “a really good start”, according to Heathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye. He welcomed the review dates in


the government’s taskforce report and said the plan for a ‘green watchlist’ of countries at risk of switching to amber under the Covid traffic light system was “a good idea”. But Holland-Kaye told Travel


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If you go to a green country, not only do you have to take a test before you return, you also have to take an expensive PCR test after returning. “That will make travel too


expensive for people.” Yet he insisted: “When you look at


the restrictions in place even for green countries, it’s hard to see why travel shouldn’t start on May 17 because there is a real belt-and-braces approach. It will mean relatively few people travelling, at least in the early days. But it’s a start and we welcome that.”


secretary Grant Shapps “has done a good job in getting this through government”. He said the promise of a list of green countries in “early May is not enough notice before May 17, but getting the framework in place was the important thing”. “I would rather the government


took a bit of time to get this right than leap into defining which countries


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