June 23rd - Travel Day of Action
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
“Travel Day of Action”: What the industry is demanding – and what it might get?
“We won’t do anything to put public health at risk” – so does that include not making them stay in the UK?
And easyJet’s last throw of the dice goes wrong, with new flights from Manchester to Scotland already called off.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and thanks for joining me. It's Wednesday the 23rd of June and here's the latest on travel and destinations from the Greenlist and the travel desk of the Independent. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm coming to you live from College Green in Westminster, Central London. This is the Travel Day of Action. |
| 0:24.0 | And it's the travel industry demanding the right to be able to take people on holiday abroad and also get some financial support. Many |
| 0:31.0 | people here telling me they have not had any income for 15 months. Now, we've also had the media minister talking quite a lot about travel. |
| 0:41.5 | We won't do anything to put public health at risk, he says. So what does that involve? |
| 0:47.3 | And Easy Jets, last throw of the dice goes wrong with new flights from Manchester to Scotland |
| 0:53.2 | called off before they've even begun. |
| 0:56.2 | Of course, this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email. You can sign up at |
| 1:01.9 | independent.co.uk forward slash newsletters. Well, I'm looking across at a football field sized patch of grass that's across the road |
| 1:13.1 | from the House of Parliament and it's filled with about a couple of hundred people who |
| 1:19.6 | are demonstrating as you can hear. |
| 1:22.1 | These are travel agents who are desperately upset with the way they say the government has |
| 1:26.6 | treated them. We've also got a good selection of pilots, people who are trying to fly people on holiday, |
| 1:35.3 | and unfortunately they cannot. |
| 1:37.3 | And so therefore the travel industry has come together for a day of action |
| 1:42.3 | in order to get the government's attention and try to |
| 1:47.0 | salvage something from the summer. Whether or not it's going to do any good, who knows? |
| 1:53.2 | Because, well, we heard the media minister, John Whittingdale, saying this morning, we won't do |
| 1:59.5 | anything to put public health at risk. |
| 2:02.9 | Well, I can mount a fairly convincing argument, I hope, that actually you should allow people |
| 2:10.1 | to travel because this is actually the opportunity to reduce the risk of exposure to coronavirus, |
| 2:20.7 | since the UK is now way ahead of pretty much everywhere else in Europe, it would be far safer for people to be in European countries, |
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