UK To Close All Air-Travel Corridors As New Viral Strains Threaten

Heathrow Airport travelers
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LONDON—All UK travel corridors will close starting early morning Jan. 18 to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. “Yesterday we announced that we are banning flights from South America and Portugal,” UK prime minister Boris Johnson told a press conference Jan. 15. “And, to protect us against the risk of...
Victoria Moores

Victoria Moores joined Air Transport World as our London-based European Editor/Bureau Chief on 18 June 2012. Victoria has nearly 20 years’ aviation industry experience, spanning airline ground operations, analytical, journalism and communications roles.

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