‘Good chance’ that Greek and Spanish islands will be put on green list, says aviation expert
According to the latest data, there’s a “good chance” that Spanish and Greek holiday islands will be moved to the green list in the government’s review later this week, an aviation expert has claimed. The former director of strategy at BA’s parent company International Airlines Group (IAG) and founder of GridPoint Consulting Limited, Robert Boyle, has predicted that Malta, Finland and Slovakia also have a clear case for going green. On the flip-side, he expects Bahrain, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago and Kuwait to turn red on the forthcoming update, expected on Thursday 3 June. Looking at key destinations for UK travellers, Boyle analysed countries’ case rates and testing rates. Any country with a daily case rate of 71 per million or below is a potential for the next green list, he argues, provided the testing rate is also above two per thousand. “Why did I choose 71 per million as a case rate threshold? It is the equivalent of the EU’s proposed threshold of 100 cases in a 14 day period per 100,000 population,” he wrote in a recent blog post. “We don’t know whether the UK government is using that threshold, or something lower. So I’ve also shown the case rate that Portugal had when the government put it on the green list. So somewhere between the two lines is presumably an acceptable rate.” Additional destinations that could go green if the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) used the same threshold as the EU include Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg.<br/>
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‘Good chance’ that Greek and Spanish islands will be put on green list, says aviation expert
According to the latest data, there’s a “good chance” that Spanish and Greek holiday islands will be moved to the green list in the government’s review later this week, an aviation expert has claimed. The former director of strategy at BA’s parent company International Airlines Group (IAG) and founder of GridPoint Consulting Limited, Robert Boyle, has predicted that Malta, Finland and Slovakia also have a clear case for going green. On the flip-side, he expects Bahrain, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago and Kuwait to turn red on the forthcoming update, expected on Thursday 3 June. Looking at key destinations for UK travellers, Boyle analysed countries’ case rates and testing rates. Any country with a daily case rate of 71 per million or below is a potential for the next green list, he argues, provided the testing rate is also above two per thousand. “Why did I choose 71 per million as a case rate threshold? It is the equivalent of the EU’s proposed threshold of 100 cases in a 14 day period per 100,000 population,” he wrote in a recent blog post. “We don’t know whether the UK government is using that threshold, or something lower. So I’ve also shown the case rate that Portugal had when the government put it on the green list. So somewhere between the two lines is presumably an acceptable rate.” Additional destinations that could go green if the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) used the same threshold as the EU include Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg.<br/>
