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Old 12th Feb 2021, 21:33
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Rutan16
 
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How many people from the North West even know of Paraguay or French Guiana ,or Eswatini ?

The Red List does include Portugal (Flights suspended and frontier with Spain closed ) and the UAE (Emirates passenger flights already suspended ) yet Etihad still flying -THIS EITHER STOPS come Monday or there will be a need to introduce a quarantine for this particular service.

Alternative routes are also closed off; primary connection point Amsterdam flights have been suspended for some weeks (By the Dutch authorities)

Just Air France and Swiss possibilities for perhaps a dozen global connections a week!

Frankly this RED List is something of a sop to the right wing media.

Even in normal times the majority of South America illicites pretty marginal traffic flows to and from the UK; similarly the Sub Saharan African routes

Just South Africa, Portugal and the UAE are significant and ALL those have flights suspended anyway.

Its too little too late, as we have come to expect with the shambles of an administration we have to endure for 4 more years !
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