Heathrow Airport’s CEO John Holland-Kaye has warned if Boris Johnson does not lay out plans to lift hotel quarantine and other stringent travel restrictions, travel could be the privilege of the “wealthy and desperate”.
“You have to be desperate and wealthy to fly from next Monday because the cost of all the tests the hotel quarantine, if you’re coming through one of the ‘red countries’, is just so high,” he told Sky News.
“Plus having to quarantine for 10 days and be able to do that for many people is just impossible.
“I don’t think we’ll see many people other than they really essential travel happening from Sunday and these may be the measures that are needed right now, in order to make sure that we don’t get new variants coming into the UK, but it can’t last for long.
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