July 2nd - Flights on the Rise
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Could an Indian vaccine scupper your planned trip?
More on Spain’s tests for British travellers.
And the number of flights is increasing – particular on Ryanair.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Friday the 2nd of July and thanks for joining me on the latest on travel and destinations from the Green List and the travel desk of the Independent. |
| 0:11.2 | Today, could an Indian vaccine scupper your planned trip? |
| 0:16.6 | More on Spain's tests for British travellers. |
| 0:19.8 | And the number of flights is increasing, |
| 0:23.0 | particularly on Ryanair. Of course, this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email, |
| 0:30.9 | and you can sign up at independent.com.com.com.com.com. Well, there's an interesting story on the front cover of the |
| 0:42.6 | Telegraph today and this is all about, well, I'll read you the headline and you can decide for |
| 0:50.1 | yourself. So it says European holidays could be off limits to five million |
| 0:57.4 | Britons given Indian-made AstraZeneca jab. That's a worrying assertion, not least for those of us who |
| 1:06.6 | are proud owners of these Indian-made AstraZeneca vaccines. But despite the story talking about how |
| 1:17.5 | we're going to be banned by the EU, despite a couple of case studies saying, this is terrible, |
| 1:23.7 | I'm going to give up my plan for a Mediterranean holiday and go to Scotland instead, |
| 1:29.4 | despite commentators on the radio saying, this is extremely worrying, I would like to say |
| 1:36.9 | this isn't extremely worrying. The thing that counts is, does the NHS certify that you have been fortunate enough to be |
| 1:47.7 | fully vaccinated? And does the destination country trust the NHS? And I think in general, |
| 1:55.8 | the answer to both those questions is going to be yes. So while there are many things that you and I can worry about |
| 2:04.4 | as travellers to do with the extraordinarily fast-paced changes in the rules, the fact that at |
| 2:12.1 | the moment there is a bit of a bureaucratic oversight in that the European Medicines Agency doesn't |
| 2:21.4 | recognise AstraZeneca, India-made vaccines for the purposes of the EU digital COVID pass, |
| 2:29.6 | which you and I can't get anyway, is not really relevant. So I would move on from there. And I'd probably |
| 2:38.3 | moved to Spain, or at least in terms of where we are and their rules. So, as a reminder, |
| 2:47.1 | previously, if you go back, I think just a week there were no requirements beyond completing a |
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