let's speak now to the travel expert simon calder, who's at gatwick airport.lonely figure there! what are we expecting to be announced on monday? it might not be announced on monday? it might not be announced until wednesday, but they have definitely announced that they are going to make an announcement, and that is that the double lock, effectively preventing you going on holiday abroad, will be lifted from the 6th ofjuly, and that is the foreign office advice which for the last three months has warned against all but essential travel anywhere abroad. and if you were to go against that advice, your travel insurance would be void. and on top of that, the quarantine rules which came into effect on the 8th ofjune, which meant that anybody coming in to gatwick or any other airport or indeed international rail station or port, needs to go home and self—isolate for two weeks. so the plan is with this new traffic light system that a select group of countries will be regarded as safe, and you won't need to quarantine, and you won't need to quarantine, and your travel

. >> let's talk about this with simon calder, a travel editor for "the independent" he joins me live from london. good morning, simon, thanks for coming on. >> good morning, i'm here at london's airport, in june, incredibly busy, the busiest single-runway airport in the world with many, many flights to florida and other parts of the u.s. but there's simply nothing happening here. we have actually heard, just in the past few hours in the uk, that foreign travel is once again going to be allowed from britain. but very carefully, there is no mention that the u.s. could be among the destinations that we will be traveling to anymore soon. and furthermore, as you say, europe is looking very closely at the record of the united states in handling coronavirus. and it's not liking what it sees. and with the u.s. currently warning against all europeans coming to america, it's a real kind of diplomatic standoff with no easy way out. >> yeah. i want you to characterize this move. this is a big deal. >> yes. >> and in some ways, it's kind of a slap at the united states, maybe deservedly so. >> wel

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well, let's find out from the man who has all the answers, our global guru simon calder. 0k, simon, i'mspot a little bit now, because back in march, when we first talked after covid—19 hit, really, you said: archive: we will see injune something like normal travel beginning again, but it will be on a small scale, and even if there is huge amounts of pent—up demand from you and i desperate to travel, it won't be anything like the normal summer that we would be looking forward to at this time. how would you like to revise that or would you like to revise that? i think i would just a little because i underestimated how non—normal it would be. certainly, there are going to be parts of the mediterranean, north america, asia, where it will at least have a reasonable number of tourists showing up, but it is going to feel very different. we've already seen that the big travel companies have got to come up with new ways of reducing risk when we are flying, and new ways of working particularly in really big hotels, which are used to effectively processing us by the thousands, so there will be a n

isjonathan smith from abta and the independenfs smith from abta and the independent‘s travel editor, simon calderrestrictions are lifted injuly, can you fly anywhere that is not on the government's warning list? probably you, simon? yes, you will be able to but be warned, the vast majority of countries will still be on the warning this. it seems incredible we are just a week away from we understand we will be able to travel and we have no idea if portugal or turkey will be on that list. it is absolutely certain that spain, france and greece will be included. other greece says it is not show it once british holiday—makers there just yet. ireland will also be on the list, but they are imposing quarantine at least until the 9th ofjuly. almost everywhere else, which means the vast majority of the world's countries are still going to carry the foreign office warning against all but essential travel and if you come back, you will face 1a days of quarantine. you can go against that advice but your travel insurance will be void and the prospect of staying indoors for two weeks isn't going to appeal to ma

areas and occult independent line but basically you talk about hotspots, for instance president trump calderovernor back there and said she was doing a great job which she is a democrat and it used to be my senator and she graduated to the governorship but anyway in dodge city look at the rate of occurrence, i'm not sure how you to find it 50 - per thousand people and it's like 50 some cases per thousand per city not like new york city but great counties, they are pretty high not quite the high like 40 or something. per thousand but in between is great county. it's right in between the two in the incident there is 4.3. >> caller were running short on time if you would not mind asking your question or comment to the guest. >> bronx, new york has lower rates is like 30 something. and great county was for. how would you do that addressing the hotspots, where is the hotspot there. >> okay steve, thanks. >> this viruses behavior is different in different parts of the country and no one knows the exact reason for that, as a population density, people who get exposed to the virus on the subway, mas

the man who has all the answers, oui’ from the man who has all the answers, our global guru simon calder you on the spot because back in march when we first talked after covid—19 hit, you said, we will see injune covid—19 hit, you said, we will see in june something like covid—19 hit, you said, we will see injune something like normal travel beginning again but it will be on a smaller scale and even if there is huge amounts of pent—up demand from you and i desperate to travel, it won't be anything like the normal summer won't be anything like the normal summer that we would be looking forward to at this time. how would you like to revise that?” forward to at this time. how would you like to revise that? i think i would just a little because a underestimated how nonnormal it would be. certainly there will be parts of the mediterranean, north america, asia, where it will at least have a reasonable number of tourists showing up, but it is going tourists showing up, but it is going to feel very different. we have already seen the big travel companies that have got to come up with new ways of

the independent‘s travel editor simon calder is at victoria coach station in london. is pretty e m pty good morning, simon. i imagine it is pretty empty there at the moment. good morning, simon. i imagine it is pretty empty there at the momentm certainly is. the very last services on both national express and megabus ran on the fifth of april, and since then the victoria coach station has effectively been in hibernation, along with a lot of the rest of the travel and transport industry, but as you say, national express announcing this morning they are effectively coming out of hibernation on first ofjuly. but it is going to be a very different experience. for a start, there aren't going to be nearly so many buses. between cardiff and london, for instance, they used to be 22. they will now just for instance, they used to be 22. they will nowjust be six. if you are travelling from birmingham to leeds and newcastle, just one day, and between leeds and liverpool and manchester, you will be having to wait three hours between buses. then it becomes very tricky when you turn

body which represents travel agents and tour operators and the independent‘s travel editor — simon calder. but i think that is due on wednesday. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise. hello there. a north—south divide with our weather story at the moment. the cloud, the wind and the rain that we saw for sunday, that's continuing across parts of scotland, northern ireland and northern england. but the heavy rain will start to ease and become more showery into the afternoon. cloudy conditions across england and wales. the best of any breaks with some brief glimpses of sunshine to the south of the m4 corridor, but it stays pretty windy with it, particularly in the sharper showers, gusts in excess of 35—40 miles an hour. and temperatures struggling a little. top temperatures of 14—20 degrees. now, as we move through the evening and overnight, the low pressure drifts its way off into scandinavia. we keep a fair amount of cloud around and a few scattered showers. weather conditions down into the south—west turn damp and misty, murky. so, it will be a relatively mild start to tuesd

and also i'm joined by the independent‘s travel editor simon calder.d we have no idea, for example, if portugal or turkey will be on that list. as you say, it is absolutely certain spain, france, greece will be included, although greece will be included, although greece has had its not sure it once british holiday—makers there just yet. ireland will also be on the list but they are imposing quarantine at least until the 9th of july. almost everywhere else, which means the vast majority of the world's countries are still going to carry the foreign office warning against all but essential travel and if you come back, you will face 1a days of quarantine. you can go against that advice but your travel insurance will be void and of course, the prospect of staying indoors but two weeks is not going to appeal to many people, which is why the travel industry is so desperate for these warnings to be lifted so that people can actually get on holiday again. jonathan, i expect you are waiting as eagerly as anyone for people wanting to travel with the news we are e

let's get more on this now from the independent‘s travel editor simon calder. fantastic bargains out there. but an awful lot of people are holding back to see what happens. things are gradually opening up. the very first flight since the 25th of march is taking place from london city airport today. in the past few minutes the first arrival at east midlands airport has touched down, the first departure will be at about half an hour. you can go anywhere you want to from there as long as it is alicante. and leeds bradford also opens today. and again, the one place you can go is alicante, where you will be leading but of course you will be leading but of course you will be travelling against foreign office advice, your insurance won't be valid and he will face the quarantine when you come back. that is going to be a big moment, the quarantine lifting is going to be the game changer. that is the moment that british tourists will presumably think, came on? well, you've got to have that at the same time as the foreign office advice. officially the quarantine is in pla

well, let's find out from the man who has all the answers, our global guru simon calder. 0k simon, inderestimated how nonnormal it would be. certainly there will be parts of the mediterranean, north america, asia, where it will at least have a reasonable number of tourists showing up, but it is going to feel very different. we have already seen the big travel companies that have got to come up with new ways of reducing risk when we are flying, and new ways of working, particularly really big hotels, which are used to effectively processing us by the thousands, so there will be a new normal. one thing, though, i absolutely wasn't expecting was the uk's sudden introduction of quarantine for all arrivals from the eighth ofjune onwards, which of course has had the, i guess, double effect of stifling all inbound tourism to the united kingdom for some unspecified period, and together with making it very difficult for any travel firms to sell outbound travel because, it is great to have a weekend in barcelona or rome, but if you are then going to have to spend two weeks stuck in your flat o

we're joined now by the independent‘s travel editor, simon calder, and haris theoharis the greek tourismabout portugal. what is going to happen there? are all kinds of concerns about how they are going to run this, because we had suddenly found out two days after we were thinking that they we re after we were thinking that they were going to be all these complicated air bridge agreements with greece and portugal and everywhere else that actually have thejoint everywhere else that actually have the joint biosecurity everywhere else that actually have thejoint biosecurity centre instead deciding what is what. but basically, as from a week on monday, the 6th ofjuly, we will be able to travel abroad to a select number of places because the double lock which at the moment is a foreign office advised against travel anywhere and the quarantine rules requiring you to self—isolate for two weeks when you come back, both of those will be dropped from that list of countries. but you and i can only speculate about it, although i think mr theoharis will be fairly confident that greece will be near the