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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

June 3rd - Despair in the Departure Lounge

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The travel industry is in utter despair at leaks from government that indicate no more countries are being added to the "green list" and that Portugal is set to be moved to "amber" – with quarantine required of holidaymakers.


My calls to the Department for Transport are going unanswered.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:02.5

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0:04.8

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0:07.3

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0:09.5

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0:10.6

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0:16.8

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0:20.9

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0:22.8

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0:25.5

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0:32.6

Hello and thanks for joining me.

0:34.8

It's Thursday the 3rd of, and here's the latest on travel

0:38.8

and destinations from the Green List and the Travel Desk of the Independent.

0:44.4

Except, I don't have the latest news for you. I have a succession of leaks which have been made

0:50.5

by the government to various media organisations about what may possibly be happening

0:57.2

in terms of your holidays or indeed if you work in the travel industry in terms of your jobs

1:02.4

over the next few weeks and months. It's now 10 past four in the afternoon here in Gibraltar and I felt I couldn't really wait any longer.

1:15.0

So I'm going to brief you on the basis of what we have been leaked.

1:20.3

I have obviously been calling the Department of Transport which decides these things fairly incessantly.

1:26.3

And so all I can really is hope to do is spell out exactly what it happens and what the

1:31.9

consequences are.

1:34.2

So it appears that no more countries will be added to the green list.

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