I doubt that 5% of the passengers who left the country yesterday in droves met the criteria of the government for travelling abroad. People living in tier 4 were banned anyway except for essential business travel while people living in tiers 1 to 3 were only meant to travel via travel corridors except there were almost no countries in them.
There are still plenty of flights from Luton today, Bulgaria has closed its borders to the U.K, as has much of Western Europe with the exception of Spain. For most of Luton’s destinations it is business as usual, as the new strain heads out of the country, which is probably good news for the U.K. but bad news for everywhere else as jeannie and bottle comes to mind.
With this mutation being 70% more infectious is flying now considered safe? Luton was never safe as an airport but that is another story. I wonder if baggage handlers and flight dispatchers are now wearing PPE?
Last edited by LTNman; 21st Dec 2020 at 04:38.