UK pilots and cabin crew issue travel sector rescue plea

LONDON: British pilots, cabin crew, travel agents and other workers are urging politicians to save the summer holiday season by reopening routes abroad or risk destroying tens of thousands of jobs as companies fail.

Workers from the travel industry will demonstrate across Britain on Wednesday, protesting outside parliament, meeting politicians, and holding events at airports to highlight the threat to their jobs from the government’s strict rules.

England is expected to re-open from a third covid-19 lockdown in July but the travel sector remains effectively shut, with the government advising against travel except to a handful of destinations.