{"id":421182,"date":"2021-06-18T11:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T06:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=421182"},"modified":"2021-06-18T12:55:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T07:25:58","slug":"ryanair-uk-airports-sue-govt-over-covid-travel-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ryanair-uk-airports-sue-govt-over-covid-travel-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair, UK airports sue govt over Covid travel rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Irish no-frills airline Ryanair and Manchester Airports Group (MAG) are to launch Thursday a legal challenge against the UK government over its Covid traffic-light travel restrictions. <\/p>\n<p>The legal action seeks greater transparency in how destinations are classified within the system, according to MAG, which manages Manchester and London Stansted airports. <\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Covid risk system ranks destinations as green, amber or red, to determine quarantine and testing requirements when travellers return. <\/p>\n<p>However, the recent reclassification of Portugal &#8212; from green to amber &#8212; sparked sector-wide anger. <\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit is backed by a number of other airlines, a MAG statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Irish no-frills airline Ryanair and Manchester Airports Group (MAG) are to launch Thursday a legal challenge against the UK government over its Covid traffic-light travel restrictions. The legal action seeks greater transparency in how destinations are classified within the system, according to MAG, which manages Manchester and London Stansted airports. Britain&#8217;s Covid risk system ranks destinations as green, amber or red, to determine quarantine and testing requirements when travellers return. However, the recent reclassification of Portugal &#8212; from green to amber &#8212; sparked sector-wide anger. The lawsuit is backed by a number of other airlines, a MAG statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}