India placed on UK s travel red list sparking scramble to beat travel deadline
Price of economy flight surges five-fold to £2,000 due to ticket shortages, as families race to avoid hotel quarantine before Friday
19 April 2021 • 6:21pm
India was placed on the UK’s travel “red list” on Monday, sparking a desperate scramble by families to beat the Friday 4am deadline to return and avoid hotel quarantine.
The standard £400 price for an economy flight from India to the UK skyrocketed to £2,000 due to shortages of tickets on nearly fully booked planes, according to travel agents handling the surge in demand.
More than 1,500 people a day are expected to arrive back in the UK before Friday after Matt Hancock announced the red list ban amid concerns over a spike in coronavirus cases in India and emergence of a new double mutant variant.
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