Ben Katz
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first heard Jun 2021
last heard Jun 2021
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Traveling to Europe This Summer? A Maze of Rules Awaits You. · 30 Jun 2021
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People who haven't traveled since the beginning of the outbreak or even longer, you know, are now returning to what is essentially a very different form of travel with different documentation, different requirements.
Of course, thanks for having me.
Yes, absolutely.
We're seeing governments from around the world kind of scrambling to put together
methods for how to reopen their borders.
And this question of a vaccine passport or having to carry proof of vaccination is becoming quite a contentious matter.
In the US, the Biden administration has been quite reluctant to tie travel or the reopening of travel
to proof of vaccination.
But meanwhile, in places like the EU, where freedom of movement between member states is seen as a fundamental right, it's much higher priority.
And we're kind of seeing these points as governments try to figure out exactly what the best mechanism is for allowing their borders to reopen potentially to vaccinated passengers.
And that's the aviation industry's concern is that people who haven't traveled, right, they haven't traveled since the beginning of the outbreak or even longer, you know, are now returning to what is essentially a very different form of travel with different documentation, different requirements.
And they really think that it's critical that, you know, there's a uniform process so that, you know, whether you're arriving in Greece or in Spain or in, you know, or in Germany, that the experience is the same.
And that everybody has the documents they need and are confident in their ability to actually enter the country that they're traveling to.
So, yeah, so there's a lot of questions on how the EU system is going to be rolled out.
People are looking at it as one of the first in the world to implement, you know, a cross-border system that will allow travel for vaccinated passengers.
So in the UK, the system is still under review.
The UK has been suffering from, you know, quite a significant outbreak of the Delta variant of COVID-19.
What the UK has said, though, is that they're looking at extending travel to slightly higher risk destinations, which could potentially allow for US tourists, travelers to come into the UK, depending on their vaccination status.
So it's something that we expect to find out more about in the next month or so.
So far, the government has kept it under wraps.
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