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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

June 21st - Take a Chance on Malta?

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Pilots’ union says UK is doing worst in Europe for flying.


Should you take a chance on Malta going green?


and Aer Lingus starts charging for cabin baggage.


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0:00.0

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0:02.5

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0:07.7

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0:17.5

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0:22.3

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0:27.8

GP or pelvic health specialist. Hello and thanks for joining me. It's Monday the 21st of June,

0:36.6

midsummer's day, Freedom Day, as it was going to be, but I'm afraid it's not.

0:41.4

And here's the latest on travel and destinations from the Greenlist and the travel desk of the Independent.

0:48.2

The Pilots Union says the UK is doing worst in Europe for flying. Should you take a chance on Malta going green

0:56.8

and Air Lingus starts charging for cabin baggage? Of course, there's no charge for this podcast.

1:04.3

It's completely free, as is my weekly travel email. You can sign up at independent.com.

1:09.9

UK forward slash newsletters. Well, the pilots

1:15.2

union, Balpa, has been very vocal throughout the coronavirus pandemic, effectively just saying,

1:22.8

look, our members want to work. They want to fly people around Europe and around the world at the moment

1:29.0

they can't. And they say that UK aviation has been harder hit than anywhere else in Europe.

1:38.1

The number of flights in and out of the UK has collapsed by three quarters, they say, compared with pre-pandemic levels.

1:47.5

They are using the data from Eurocontrol, which coordinates air traffic across Europe,

1:54.2

and as a result of that, can calculate who's flying where, and they're getting a snapshot of

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