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‘No wonder consumers are confused by the situation’
Glyn Jones, CEO of Southend Airport, tells Kay Burley: “It is not surprising that consumers are confused by the whole situation,” given that the four nations have come to different conclusions based on the same evidence.
“It just means that fewer people are traveling and that adds to the tsunami of job loss that seems to get worse every day,” he says.
“Lower the mallet, raise the scalpel and let’s have a route-by-route approach,” he says, referring to Wales’ decision to apply the quarantine rule to a handful of Greek islands and not all of Greece.
On airport testing, he says: “What we need is a test and trace scheme that is 100% accurate, not 70% accurate, and we need it to be fast, ideally in real time, and also affordable for consumers and airports.”
He says that people’s confidence in using the airport and its airlines is “pretty high.”
“The problem is their nervousness about travel, and that has resulted in us seeing fewer passengers in a day than we normally would in an hour,” he continues.
“That is not due to universal nervousness about travel safety, but to quarantine arrangements.
“That is what we need for the government to run.”
