Starting Feb. 11, fully vaccinated travelers and children under age 18 can skip testing, the British Department of Transport and Department of Health and Social Care announced Monday.
Travelers who aren't fully vaccinated still need to test, before leaving for the UK and within two days of arrival, but they won't have to self-isolate unless they test positive for COVID.
France-UK travel: Day two tests for vaccinated to end February 11
Day two testing requirements for fully vaccinated arrivals into the UK will be lifted at 04:00 on February 11, the UK's Transport Minister Grant Shapps has announced.
TRAVEL UPDATE ✈️
We are removing ALL testing measures for eligible fully vaccinated arrivals to England from 4am on 11 Feb✅
These changes have been made possible by the success of our vaccine & booster rollout (1/4)
Test-free travel is another step on the road to freedom
The end of post-arrival Day 2 tests for fully-vaccinated people returning to the UK, and an easing of restrictions on the unvaccinated, is another major breakthrough both for travellers and travel companies.
Even more importantly for many of us, it is also a welcome financial reprieve. Lateral flow tests cost between £20-£30 a time, so they can easily add £100 or more to the cost of a family holiday. Given the increasing pressures on travel costs, this represents a significant saving.
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International travel is officially reopened with travel rules and requirements all but scrapped in the UK. But other countries may still have restrictions for holidaying Britons, which makes a UK holiday still very attractive this year.
With no need to worry about travel rules and plenty of picturesque sights to take in, the UK is a holidaymaker’s dream.
Airlines call for UK to end travel restrictions in open letter to government
Airlines have grouped together to ask the British government to rule out future border closures for fear it could break the holiday industry for good.
The CEOs of seven leading air companies that serve the U.K. wrote an open letter to travel secretary Sajid Javid urging him to “rule out border closures and flight bans in response to future variants of concern”.
UK aviation industry hails axing of COVID tests for fully vaccinated arrivals to England - The
UK. Stakeholders in the UK aviation industry have welcomed today's government announcement that people arriving in England from abroad will no longer have to take day two COVID tests if they are fully vaccinated.
UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps confirmed that the changes will be introduced from 4am on 11 February, in time for the key school half-term holiday travel booking period.
Solo travel holidays: Which escorted tour (with no single supplement) is best for you?
Travelling alone need not be lonely. And there's a unique freedom about jetting off somewhere on your own and then being open about whom you might meet along the way.
A tour also allows all the organisation to be lifted from your shoulders. Thankfully, there are a growing number of companies specialising in solo travel — with no financial penalties.
Brits told NO countries will be put on red list again unless a new variant more dangerous than
SUN-starved Brits can celebrate after being told NO countries will be put on the travel red list again - unless a new Covid variant more dangerous than Omicron emerges.
The Government is set to overhaul the chaotic travel measures in favour of a "more sophisticated and targeted global surveillance system".
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