Heathrow airport rejects requests for extra flights from India
Heathrow Airport has refused requests for extra flights from India before the country is put into the UK's corona virus "red list". Four airlines asked for a total of eight extra flights to reach at the west London airport before 4am on Friday. Britons returning after that point will be forced to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.
Anyone who is not a UK or Irish resident or a British citizen will be banned from entering the united states if they have been around in India in the last 10 days. It really is understood Heathrow declined the airlines' requests to make sure existing pressures at the border aren't exacerbated. India was added to the "red list" in response to mounting concern about the quantity of corona virus cases there and the emergence of a variant.
Heathrow Airport has seen long queues at border control recently as passengers have forms checked according to entry requirements amid corona virus restrictions. An All Party Parliamentary Group on Corona virus heard on Tuesday that while queues in immigration halls vary, on average there are 2-3 hour delays at large locations like Heathrow.
