The UAE has become a playground for winter solar watchers including social media influencers who have been criticized by Ms Patel, but are aiming for the ban because it is a major airport travel hub in and out of Africa with its 80 UK flights daily carrying up to 24,000 passengers at altitude.
It means that there are now 33 ‘red list’ countries covering the Middle East, Africa, South America and Portugal where Britons will have quarantine in their hotel rooms when they return with food. attended three times a day and under the supervision of security guards.
There were signs Thursday that British passengers in all 33 countries were already racing to take the issue of hotel quarantine as a major private jet booking company reported a 25 per cent increase in demand for flights back to Britain.
Adam Twidell, chief executive of PrivateFly, said it involved business people, homeowners, elite athletes and even grandparents in bubbles in the futures of their plans to make a comeback to the UK so that they do not have to quarantine in hotels.
Viv Diprose, head of communications at PrivateFly, said: “Dubai has been a popular destination for our clients in the last month or so. If added to the [red] list, a lot of people look back from there. “
Police chiefs and the home office on Thursday warned that people who tried to break the new rules were banning overseas travel without “valid” grounds in the face of a £ 200 fine and “extremis”. arrest if they refuse to go home when asked to do so by an officer.
Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Council of Police Chiefs (NPCC), has confirmed that officers will be moved from UK streets to airports and ports to stop and turn back people suspected of attempting unnecessary journeys made out of the UK.
Airlines will have a legal duty under new rules to check people’s new travel document forms to make sure they have legitimate reasons for flights – and refuse to go ahead if they haven’t.
Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said on Thursday that overseas weddings would not be a “legitimate” reason, as long as funerals could take place.
He suggested that business people needed a “powerful” reason to travel abroad and that it be decided on a “case by case” basis.