According to the airline, 61% of Brits believe that under the traffic light travel system, the Green tier should mean restriction-free travel this summer.
The airline says that 55% of Brits say they will not be able to go on holiday this summer if expensive PCR Covid tests, currently costing up to £150, are imposed on passengers to low-risk ‘green’ tier countries.
The airline claims almost three-quarters / 74% of Brits believe that if tests do remain a requirement for travel to low-risk green tier countries, they should be in line with the lateral flow testing being used for the reopening of the rest of the UK economy rather than the more complex and expensive PCR tests.
The airline says 90% of Brits agree testing is needed to ensure safe travel if going to red-listed countries. Yet, such a small sample from a select group of people (easyJet customers presumably), can not in any way truly indicate what the entire population actually feel or believe, regardless of how leading or otherwise the questions were framed.
"The UK government need to come out as early as possible with final details of the testing regime and let the public know the tiers countries will be put into and the criteria it will use to decide those tiers." Says easyJet's CEO Johan Lundgren. Regardless of some European nations going into a third lockdown or the increasingly rapid spread of other more virulent varieties of the virus, he wants it Europe to be restriction-free "We believe that most European countries should be in the green tier based on the protection the NHS provided Brits through our vaccination roll-out."
"We are not pushing for the reopening of travel at any cost – we need to protect the NHS and vaccination programme, but we have worked with expert scientists to understand what would be needed to safely restart travel." he states, "We urge the Government to make good on its promise to bring the cost of testing down and make travelling to safe green-light destinations affordable and possible for all."
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