UK Airlines Call for Testing Not Quarantine in ‘Last Chance’ to Save Aviation Industry

UK Airlines Call for Testing Not Quarantine in ‘Last Chance’ to Save Aviation Industry
British Airways planes are parked at Heathrow Airport in London on Jan. 10, 2017. Frank Augstein/AP Photo/ File
Mary Clark
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British airlines on Thursday pressed the UK government to introduce CCP virus testing by the end of the month instead of quarantine, in what they described as a “last chance” to save the industry

Airlines UK, an industry body representing British Airways (BA), easyJet, Ryanair Virgin Atlantic, TUI, Jet2, and others, said action to replace the 14-day quarantine currently in place for travelers entering the UK from countries with high rates of the CCP virus was needed before the end of September.