UK: MPs call for urgent action to save aviation jobs

Urgent government action is needed to safeguard jobs in the aviation industry and ensure its survival, a cross-party group of MPs has said. The newly formed Future of Aviation Group issued the call in a letter to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. The group of 40 MPs complained of "the lack of progress" in providing wider support for the industry. And they asked how often the government would review its planned quarantine for new arrivals. From 8 June, people entering the UK from abroad will be told to isolate for 14 days or face a GBP1,000 fine. The quarantine plan has already attracted fierce criticism from the travel industry, with more than 70 travel bosses denouncing it in a separate letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel. "The wider aviation family makes a significant economic and social contribution to the UK and will be central to our long-term economic recovery," the MPs wrote to Shapps. "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."<br/>