Travel

Travellers returning to England or Northern Ireland from seven Greek islands will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 4am on Wednesday 9 September. The announcement comes as Transport Secretary Grant Shapps unveiled a new 'islands policy', which will mean islands can be added to or removed from England's travel corridor list separately to countries as a whole.

Travellers returning to Wales from Portugal and six Greek islands will need to self-isolate for 14 days if they return after 4am on Friday. And the Scottish Government has followed suit by adding Portugal to its quarantine list, meaning all travellers returning to Scotland from there after 4am on Saturday will also need to self-isolate.

Travellers returning from Greece will have to self-isolate for 14 days if they arrive back in Scotland after 4am on Thursday, the Scottish Government has announced.

Holidaymakers who have booked stays in the UK with several other households are finding they are unable to get refunds for their bookings – even though travelling could go against Government coronavirus guidance.

More than 10,000 standard passport applications took over 12 weeks to process during the height of the coronavirus lockdown, new data obtained by MoneySavingExpert.com shows.

Student travel firm STA Travel UK has ceased trading, claiming it was left with "no choice" following the impact of the coronavirus crisis on tourism.

Holidaymakers who return from France are now forced to quarantine for 14 days and the Foreign Office is now advising against all non-essential travel there due to coronavirus, in a move which will throw 100,000s of Brits' holiday plans into confusion. The same restrictions are also being put in place for the Netherlands, Malta, Monaco, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Aruba.

Commuters across Great Britain could see rail season ticket prices rise by up to 1.6% from next year, despite people being urged to return to workplaces.

The aviation regulator has today published a list of 18 airlines' performances during the coronavirus pandemic, with Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic rapped for being too slow to pay refunds. The announcement comes after MoneySavingExpert.com warned yesterday they were likely to be named and shamed based on the results of our latest survey on travel refunds. 

Aviation regulator the Civil Aviation Authority is this week expected to name and shame the airlines that have been the worst for refunds during the coronavirus pandemic. It comes after MSE presented the regulator with a dossier of 77,000 responses to our survey on travel refunds, which earlier this month found that Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic were the worst-rated major airlines.