Originally Posted by
T250
As alluded to above, UK quarantine will be a farce.
Re-route your flight via Dublin or any Ireland or Northern Ireland port/airport and you're exempt from quarantine - for long haul flights ADP/taxes tend to be cheaper via DUB anyway!
Or, save the hassle, land direct in UK, whether you give a mickey mouse address or a real one, as nothing appears to stop anyone flying out again 24 hours later.
So whats your point, ask all passengers to behave unethically and be irresponsible ?
Many laws can be worked around, thats not the point. Its a strong government recommendation, a requirement. Sure folks can obviate it, but then we’re back to the middle ages, aren’t we a civilised trustworthy society?
My grip against the current situation, is that pilots are in their own tunnel, and are unwilling to think outside this. For example, a local authority in the uk received 4million quid to fight covid from the gov. Thats for a city with 200,000 inhabitants . Yet Virgin wants half a billion quid so it can fly a few fat cat business men to the states, and deliver a few bucket and spade holidays to those who can afford it.
Is flying that important? Has it now become irrelevant?