Double the usual number of flights to the UK are due to leave Portugal as holidaymakers scramble to leave on the last day before the country moves to the Orange Travel List.
Thirty-nine flights were due to leave Faro Airport in the Algarve for the UK on Monday, nearly double what is expected on a normal day.
Travelers must arrive in the UK before 4 a.m. on Tuesday or they will have to self-isolate at home for 10 days due to a government decision to remove Portugal from its COVID green travel list.
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Tourists hoping to exceed the deadline are hit by a combination of many sold-out flights and the handful of available seats sold at inflated prices.
Ryanair charges £ 285 for a flight from Faro to Bournemouth on Monday, but only £ 17 on Wednesday.
Faro airport had double the normal number of flights in the UK
EasyJet flights from Faro to Gatwick cost £ 227 on Mondays and £ 53 on Tuesdays.
Tourists to the Algarve have also reported difficulties getting the pre-departure tests required by the government for people arriving in the UK.
Many vacationers and travel agencies expressed their anger when the announcement of the Portugal was made last Thursday because it came just 17 days after the ban on international leisure travel was lifted.
Portuguese authorities have also questioned why the UK has moved the popular holiday destination off its Amber Travel Green List, saying they couldn’t “understand the logic”.
Many tourists have expressed their anger at the changes
The transport ministry, however, maintained that the situation in the country “required swift action to protect the gains made with the deployment of the vaccine.”
He said the positivity rate for coronavirus tests in Portugal had nearly doubled since the trip …
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Source: news.sky.com
This notice was published: 2021-06-07 09:26:00