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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

October 20th - Morocco Bans UK Flights

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Morocco has suddenly banned flights from the UK?


Will Britain’s soaring Covid rates lead to other travel bans?


And Singapore Airlines is putting its biggest plane on one of its shortest routes.


Of course this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly travel email. You can sign up at independent.co.uk/newsletters.


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Transcript

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0:32.3

Hello, it's Wednesday the 20th of October and thanks for joining me, Simon Calder,

0:37.2

for the latest on travel

0:38.5

and destinations from the Green List and the travel desk of the Independent. Today, Morocco has

0:44.9

suddenly banned flights from the UK. Will Britain's soaring COVID rates lead to other

0:51.6

travel bans and Singapore Airlines is putting one of its biggest planes

0:56.8

on one of its shortest routes. Of course, this podcast is completely free, as is my weekly

1:03.9

travel email, do sign up at independent.co.uk. If you were kind enough to listen yesterday,

1:18.6

you'll have heard that I was talking about Ryanair launching flights between Edinburgh and Marrakesh in December.

1:29.0

Well, no sooner had that happened than, well, we got the news, which actually started to find me from passengers who had just been told their flights had been cancelled that Morocco has banned all flights from the UK to Morocco from midnight.

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