Anger at Heathrow as Johnson’s French U-turn adds to grief

London’s Heathrow airport was thronged with travelers Monday as the UK eased travel curbs -- but pre-holiday enthusiasm was replaced with anger for some after last-minute rule changes added unexpected complications to their trip. While fully vaccinated tourists headed for the Mediterranean were cheered by the removal of quarantine requirements on their return, people bound for France hit out at a decision late Friday that means they’ll still need to self-isolate. Madeline Russell, a London-based dentist flying to the southern French city of Toulouse to visit her mother, said she was skeptical that the spread of the beta variant of Covid-19 was the sole motivation for reinstating the quarantine, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has maintained. “There are obviously underlying political reasons why they singled out France,” Russell said before boarding a BA flight with her husband and baby. “What’s most frustrating is that they chop and change. They announce something then rapidly change tune so quickly.” The UK created a new “amber plus” category in its traffic-light border system that makes it harder to travel to France, the only country with that designation. <br/>