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Sunday, 05 July 2020

BBC News

• Coronavirus: UK PM's father says he hopes for 'air bridge' with GreeceBoris Johnson's father Stanley has defended his trip to Greece, which critics said broke lockdown rules.
• Scotland's papers: 'Flights fiasco' as Scots told to staycationSome holiday accommodation reopens but differences in quarantine rules for visitors from abroad persist across the UK.
• Coronavirus: UK government's quarantine-free list 'absurd'Portuguese leaders say the country's exclusion from a list drawn up by the UK government is

Financial Times

• US sends aircraft carriers into South China Sea Show of strength as Beijing conducts exercises in contested waters around Paracel Islands

The Guardian

• Rolls-Royce faces a long haul back to high-flier statusWith aviation revenue barely off the ground, the company will have little good news to give at this week’s trading updateTransport yourself back to another time, another, more innocent, world: January 2020. Warren East, chief executive of jet engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce, is losing a sympathetic but by this time well-lubricated audience for his keynote speech at the aerospace and defence industry’s annual shindig. The word coronavirus is still firmly confined to the foreign sections of newspapers (even if Asian markets are starting to get jittery), and the industry is readying itself for an...
• ‘They're all passing the buck’: UK travel firms flout the law on holiday refundsThousands of UK travellers face long struggle to get their money back for trips cancelled because of pandemic Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTravellers whose trips are cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic face a summer of stress as companies rewrite the rules to avoid refunding them. Thousands of holidaymakers have been struggling since March to get their money back, and the problem is likely to worsen now the government has eased the ban on travelling abroad.Summer bargains advertised by travel firms could be scuppered if new lockdowns are imposed in the ...

The Independent

• Boris Johnson's father defends trip to Greece amid criticism The Foreign Office currently recommends avoiding 'all but essential' travel

Times Online

• Emirates’ Tim Clark: the Zoom era? No! Travel will come roaring back [Subscription]Emirates’ lead pilot reckons passenger numbers will double by 2030, despite changes wrought by the virus
• Help us restart flights to New York, airlines plead [Subscription]Airlines led by Virgin Atlantic are desperately lobbying ministers for quarantine rules to be relaxed to reopen the transatlantic route.
• Where can I go on holiday? Destination list causes ‘utter confusion’ [Subscription]Travel firms are begging ministers for clarity, saying conflicting advice is putting Britons off booking flights

This is Money

• Sir Stelios to blast 'dishonest' easyJet boardEasyJet has tapped investors for £419million to survive the coronavirus crisis - and needs shareholders to approve about £140million of that at the meeting.

Liverpool Echo

• Boris Johnson's dad defends jetting to Greece during lockdownStanley Johnson, 79, said he was on "essential business" as he needed to "Covid-proof my property"

EIN News Subscription

• Spain to reopen borders to 12 non-EU countries … to visitors from 12 non-EU countries, according to the … European Union (EU). Travel restrictions do not affect people working in transport … , such as truck drivers, people working for airlines or … to countries of the EU and the Schengen passport- …