Hello and thanks for joining me. It's Tuesday the 15th of June and here's the latest on travel

and destinations from the Green List and the travel desk of the independent. Delay day. What does

the postponed reopening in England mean for travel? Ryanair's unexpected diversion to Belarus. We've been hearing new

revelations from the boss of the airline to MPs, and there's a new ferry link promised

between Wales and Northern Ireland. Of course, this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email, and you can sign up for that at

independent.co.com.uk forward slash newsletters. Well, as you will probably know, the UK's, or at least

England's reopening, has been delayed.

This was announced at Downing Street on Monday night, and it means that plans to reopen the economy

and to remove coronavirus restrictions in England will now not be going ahead until the 19th of July.

Now, that doesn't directly affect international travel, but I think indirectly it most certainly will.

The next dates, and I've just checked this with the Department

for Transport for reviews of the traffic light system, are due to be announced on the 24th of June

and the 15th of July, so that's a month today. Because England will still be under a lot of restrictions

and because ministers have always said that they are concerned about the domestic reopening

being jeopardised by new variants coming in, it seems extremely unlikely that there is

going to be any significant opening. It's absolutely incontrovertible that there should be

because there are many, many destinations, mainly in Europe, but also around the world,

where there are British people would be

much safer than they would be at home far less likely to become infected with of course

infection rates soaring in the UK. Best thing that can happen is people go abroad where there's

lower cases and they can sit in the sunshine.

But that is very, very unlikely to happen. Just a reminder, the first review on the 3rd of June,

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