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A British Airways plane with 33 passengers on board landed at Arlanda in Sweden on Saturday morning despite the fact that Sweden bans flights for UK passengers to Sweden. The Swedish ban is in effect until December 31 this year.
The trip included four Finnish nationals who would travel to Finland, several Swedish media report.
According to the Swedish Transport Agency, there is an absolute no-fly zone for passenger traffic between the UK and Sweden, in order to prevent a new mutated variant of the coronavirus from spreading from the UK.
According to Aftonbladet, the Swedish Transport Agency believes that there may have been a misunderstanding that led to the aircraft still flying between the countries. The Swedish Transport Agency has informed British Airways of the ban. The Swedish Transport Agency has also reported the case to the British Civil Aviation Administration.
The STT news agency writes with reference to Svenska Dagbladet that the 29 Swedish citizens were allowed to go home after seeing a doctor. They were urged to isolate themselves. It is said that the four Finns were allowed to fly to Helsinki.
According to Expressen, border police contacted infection control doctors due to the flight from the UK, but there was no reason for a quarantine provision. The Swedes were allowed to travel to Sweden and were not crowned.
The four Finns made a stopover in Sweden. Border Police Chief Patrik Engström tells Expressen that it was a family with young children.
STT, SVT, SR, Aftonbladet, Expressen
