Hello and thanks for joining me. It's Sunday the 20th of June and here's the latest on travel and destinations from the Green List and the travel desk of the Independent. As the next traffic-like review approaches, what Green List editions might there possibly be? Could British Airways abandon Catwick Airport Airport and seven years late, part-time season tickets

are about to arrive on the railways? Of course, this podcast is completely free and you are

most welcome to sign up for my free travel email. You can go to independent.co.uk forward slash newsletters,

and there's going to be a special midsummer edition that will be appearing at about 10.30 tomorrow

morning. Well, it's, of course, just five days before the next traffic light review, which everybody in the travel industry is really excited about or fearful about. You might recall that the very first one on the 3rd of June took everybody by surprise. We were expecting a modest easing of the current very strict rules. Let me just

remind you what they are. If you're coming in from a Red List country, that is 11 nights of

hotel quarantine for you at your expense. From an Amber List country, well, it's 10 days in

self-isolation. You can reduce that to just

five days if you take a second test after five days at your expense. And for the green list,

well, no self-isolation at all. But for all of these categories, you need to take a pre-departure test and then

one or more PCR tests upon arrival. It's not easy. We have been warned that there is a choice

between domestic opening up and international travel opening up and as the domestic date was pushed back

by four weeks that caused an awful lot of gloom however talking to some people in the travel industry

over the weekend and they are brightening up a bit because the fortunes of the health secretary

Matt Hancock do not seem to be going particularly well for the unfortunate chap.

We saw, of course, during the week, Dominic Cummings, Prime Minister's former Chief Advisor,

saying that Boris Johnson thought that Matt Hancock was hopeless.

We've also got in the telegraph today

the assertion that the Health Secretary kept important information from the Prime Minister.

When the traffic lights things are being reviewed,

you've, from my understanding, got Michael Gove,

Matt Hancock and Pritty Patel lining up against Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, and Grant Shaps,

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