A group of MPs in the UK have written to the country’s transport secretary criticising plans for a quarantine.
The Future of Aviation Group called instead for a series of air bridges with low-risk countries.
In a letter to Grant Shapps, the group said: “The wider aviation family makes a significant economic and social contribution to the UK and will be central to our long-term economic recovery.
“We are therefore concerned at the lack of progress being made in providing wider support for the industry and in the development of a long-term roadmap that will enable the sector to recover as quickly as possible and play its vital role in our national overall economic recovery.
“We need urgent action now to safeguard jobs, the UK’s international competitiveness as an aviation hub and, crucially, to ensure that our economy recovers from the impacts of Covid-19 as soon as it is safe and possible to do so.The consequences of inaction in this vital area are simply unthinkable.”