June 1st - From the Rock of Gibraltar
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today I'm looking at Heathrow's brand new Red List Terminal and what that means for airport operations and passengers.
An on location report of the experience you can expect visiting Gibraltar.
And it looks as though the expected Green List review we hoped for will not be arriving Thursday.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Green List Travel and Destination News from the Independent. |
| 0:10.3 | Today I'm looking at Heathrow's new Red List Terminal, what that will mean for airport operations and passengers. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm here in Gibraltar and I'll be giving you an update on |
| 0:24.8 | the situation here and furthermore I have found out just now that the Thursday review of the |
| 0:34.0 | Green List that we were hoping for perhaps will not be happening on Thursday. |
| 0:39.6 | Of course, this podcast is completely free, coming to you right now from the World War II tunnels |
| 0:45.9 | in the middle of the rock of Gibraltar. |
| 0:49.7 | And you can subscribe to my free travel email. |
| 0:54.0 | Every Friday it comes out, and you can find that my free travel email. Every Friday it comes out, |
| 0:56.2 | and you can find that at independent.com.uk forward slash newsletters. |
| 1:01.8 | Away from the echoing chambers of the rock of Gibraltar at Heathrow, |
| 1:09.0 | Terminal 3 is for the first time in 14 months actually seeing some |
| 1:15.4 | activity. This used to be the main intercontinental terminal for the airport and as a result of the |
| 1:26.1 | coronavirus pandemic it has been completely closed down |
| 1:30.5 | because, frankly, Heathrow doesn't need four terminals, |
| 1:36.0 | and so only two and five are being used. |
| 1:39.5 | Sadly, Terminal 1 has been flattened. |
| 1:43.5 | Now, the Red List terminal works like this. |
| 1:48.0 | If you are coming in from a destination such as |
| 1:53.0 | Mumbai in India from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, |
| 1:59.0 | then you are required to go into hotel isolation. |
| 2:04.8 | Until now, there has been no way of separating out people who need to go into hotel isolation |
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