August 24th - Return to Oz
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
New green list possibilities?
British Airways signals a return to Australia seven months from now – with a faster journey but smaller plane.
And could Ryanair be leaving Northern Ireland?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Tuesday the 24th of August and thanks for joining me for the latest on travel and destinations from the Greenlist and the travel desk of the Independent. |
| 0:10.3 | Today, some new Greenlist possibilities, purely speculation at this stage, we hope to find out tomorrow night. |
| 0:19.4 | British Airways signals a return to Australia seven months |
| 0:23.9 | from now with a faster journey but a smaller plane. And Ryanair may have removed all |
| 0:31.9 | flights from Northern Ireland. I'll let you know the latest. Of course, this podcast is completely free, as is my |
| 0:40.8 | weekly travel email. You can sign up at independent.co.uk forward slash newsletters. |
| 0:48.5 | There's all kinds of speculation about the latest round of traffic light changes which we expect to be announced |
| 0:56.2 | at about 10 o'clock tomorrow night although frankly you can never tell a lot of concern of course |
| 1:03.3 | about some countries going red and others may be turkey moving to the amber list which would |
| 1:08.8 | make travel far easier for many people, particularly |
| 1:12.0 | those of us lucky enough to have been vaccinated. But I want just to have a quick look at some |
| 1:18.8 | of the places, which I think could make the green list, and I can absolutely guarantee everybody, |
| 1:26.6 | I will be wrong. Some of them won't appear and others probably |
| 1:31.1 | will. The one country which I think is really substantial and should have been on the green list |
| 1:37.8 | probably a couple of reviews ago, six weeks, is Poland. Great country got good numbers, no variance of concern to trouble the |
| 1:48.1 | policy makers as far as I can see. And of course, a really important destination for people. |
| 1:55.1 | Not so much outbound tourists, but so many strong family connections with Poland. So I hope to see that. |
| 2:02.2 | Maybe also in Eastern Europe, the Czech Republic and Hungary, |
| 2:07.9 | although I think they are some way behind Poland. |
| 2:12.4 | And, well, you might also expect to find somewhere like Saudi Arabia put on the green list. |
| 2:19.9 | Interesting destination. Not for everybody. I've been there a couple of times. |
| 2:25.4 | And that might make the green list too. And of course, while it's great for people to be |
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