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Friday, 23 April 2021

BBC News

• Covid: India joins UK's 'red list' as travel ban beginsIt comes as a further 55 cases of the so-called India coronavirus variant are reported in the UK.

Financial Times

• Will zero emissions aviation ever take off?Aviation must find an alternative to fossil fuels if countries are to hit ambitious net zero targets by 2050
• US airlines say worst behind us as vaccines fuel recoveryAverage passenger numbers are at their highest level since the pandemic began

City AM

• BA owner IAG to power a tenth of flights with sustainable fuels by 2030British Airways owner IAG has today committed to powering 10 per cent of its flights with sustainable aviation fuels by 2030.

London Evening Standard

• Last flight from India lands at Heathrow ahead of new ‘red list’ curbs on travel from countryThe last scheduled flight from India to the UK has now arrived in to Heathrow ahead of the country being put on the travel “red listâ€� as the Covid crisis esculates in the region.

Yorkshire Post

• Turning down the volume on aviation noise as flights take off again and Leeds Bradford Airport plans expansion: Rob LightTHE unexpected nature of a global pandemic means that we don’t know exactly when planes will return to the sky in greater numbers, and what a recovery of the aviation industry might look like.

Other Regional Press

• Heathrow and Gatwick: Vaccine passports 'to arrive next month' in time for summer holidaysIt’s looking more and more likely that so-called Covid ‘vaccine passports’ are on the way, in time to resurrect hopes of summer holidays abroad .