EasyJet and Wizz executives ask UK to drop Covid-19 tests for vaccinated travellers

Executives from EasyJet and Wizz Air have called on the UK government to allow fully vaccinated travellers to enter the country without being required to undertake a Covid-19 test. EasyJet CCO Sophie Dekkers said the UK’s current Covid-19 testing policies are a “real shame” that weigh on demand. She compares demand in the UK to that in Europe – where vaccinated travellers can travel without testing – noting the “much stronger” recovery in the latter. Wizz Air UK managing director Marion Geoffroy calls on the government to take a “risk-based approach” and “revisit vaccinated traveller status”. “The whole point in vaccination was to avoid this,” Geoffroy says of day-two Covid-19 testing for travellers to the UK. UK aviation minister Robert Courts said the government would undertake a review of travel restrictions early in the new year.<br/>