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Saturday, 05 December 2020

BBC News

• Heathrow Airport considering charging drivers for drop-offsMost drivers will have to pay about £5 under the plans which could be introduced next year.
• British Airways' memorabilia sale hits snag as demand soarsThe airline's sale of surplus stock - crockery, blankets, slippers - sparked delight and disappointment.

Financial Times

• Airlines in scramble to deliver goods in time for ChristmasCompanies struggle to find planes to move deliveries around the world at busiest time of year

The Guardian

• Coronavirus live news: US averages 1,800 daily deaths as NSW investigates link to airline crewsWorld Health Organization warns virus spreading fast despite vaccine progress; French infections rise to 2.29m; Brazil reports 627 new deaths. Follow latest updatesVaccine to have only ‘marginal impact’ on winter hospital admissionsCDC advises ‘universal’ masks indoors as US deaths again break recordsItalians decry Christmas travel ban as ‘slap in the face’See all coronavirus coverage 6.46am GMT Authorities in New Jersey are investigating a political fundraising gala held at a venue earlier this week and organised by a neighbouring New York Republican group.Photos and video from the New York R...

Times Online

• Grant Shapps’s team gets quarantine rules wrong by £99.9m [subscription]When Grant Shapps announced on Twitter the new quarantine exemptions for “high-value” business travellers, he left his department’s press office to fill in the details. That, it turns out, was a mistake.
• Travellers in ‘cattle class’ offered a bed for the flight [subscription]A long-haul flight is uncomfortable at the best of times, but sitting in economy class, sandwiched between other passengers for hours, can be unbearable.

City AM

• High-flying business figures exempted from travel quarantine rulesBusiness travellers who arrive back into England will no longer have to self-isolate if they come in from a country not on the government's travel corridor list. The post High-flying business figures exempted from travel quarantine rules appeared first on CityAM.

The Mirror

• Coronavirus' impact on airport communities laid bare in new jobless figuresLabour asked the House of Commons Library to study the rise in unemployment claimant counts in constituencies which have big airports

Wales Online

• Man who took out £100,000 loan on parents' home to become a pilot is joblessPilots have been made redundant after the collapse in air travel during the pandemic and many airlines are not hiring again

Other News Sources

• London City Airport shelves plans to extend operating hourshttps://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/london-city-airport-masterplan-1-6952846