Google Maps Live View upgrade shows users AR cues for directions INSIDE malls, airports and stations

Google Maps is no longer an outdoor navigation system – the tech giant is rolling out an upgrade that provides directions inside different facilities. Users can now use Live View on smartphones to maneuver around malls, airports and train stations. The Indoor Live View Feature uses AR cues to provide turn-by-turn directions over a live … Read more

Airlines will NOT lose take-off and landing slots at UK airports, says Grant Shapps

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has told airlines they will not lose their take-off and landing slots at UK airports even if they continue to operate fewer flights than normal over summer. Airlines are usually required to use 80 per cent of slots at oversubscribed airports or risk them being taken away the following year. Previously, … Read more

Border Force says it can’t stop travellers ‘legging it’ from airports

Border officials have have warned that they are powerless to stop people dodging quarantine, and have criticised the government’s ‘shambolic’ border policy. Britain risks becoming a ‘super-spreader’ because of how relaxed the rules are, they said, adding that they are unable to stop people from ‘legging it’ from airport terminals to avoid having to quarantine … Read more

Save our airports Boris… or risk levelling DOWN to a Little Britain

Right from the start, the UK’s airports have consistently supported measures that protect public health. This is despite knowing the financial pain additional travel restrictions would bring to our businesses. In many cases, we have led the way in pulling industry and Government together to work on future measures to enable travel to resume safe … Read more

Ministers reserve 28,000 rooms near airports for hotel quarantine scheme

Britain’s hotel quarantine scheme will finally begin on February 15 – nearly three weeks after it was first announced. Retired Royal Marine general Sir Gordon Messenger, a former vice chief of defence staff who led a mass community testing operation in Liverpool last year, has been drafted in to oversee the delayed project.  Last night, … Read more

Skytrax hygiene audit team left shocked by Zanzibar airport’s ‘complete lack of Covid-19 measures’ 

‘A complete lack of Covid-19 measures’ at an airport on the paradise archipelago of Zanzibar has left a hygiene audit team shocked. Respected UK-based air transport rating agency Skytrax said that Abeid Amani Karume International Airport was ‘failing on Covid-19 safety protocols’ after it assessed measures and standards at the airport earlier this month. It … Read more

Plan to force travellers to quarantine at hotel airports could get the go-ahead today

Arrivals to Britain could be forced to quarantine in airport hotels under plans to be discussed by ministers today as travel chaos continues at the border. Travellers to Britain could be forced to quarantine in hotels under plans to be discussed by ministers today as chaos continues at the border. Any new restrictions would be a … Read more

Plan to force travellers to quarantine at hotel airports could get the go-ahead tomorrow

Plan to force travellers to quarantine at hotel airports on arrival in UK could get the go-ahead TOMORROW Travellers may have to stay in quarantine in airport hotels to travel to the UK It emerged EU leaders are discussing plans to close borders to British travellers   Priti Patel says it’s ‘far too early to speculate’ about … Read more

Airports could close after decision to suspend all of Britain’s quarantine-free travel corridors

Airports could close altogether after Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend all of Britain’s quarantine-free travel corridors – as move deepens crisis faced by travel and aviation industries Anyone arriving in the UK will have to produce a negative coronavirus test All flights from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde have been banned The PM’s announcement … Read more

British travellers are held at German airports over mutant Covid strain

British passengers were left stranded in German airports last night and confined in a terminal until they could test negative for Covid-19 after Europe moved to seal off the UK because of its alarming new strain of the disease.  Nurses in hazmat suits were screening the last arrivals from Britain on Sunday night as furious … Read more