UK airlines in disarray following Portugal’s move to “amber” status

UK airlines share prices have fallen steeply today on the news that the UK government has removed Portugal from its green list of countries UK travellers can visit without a compelling reason and without any quarantine requirements. At its first three-weekly review of the UK Government’s traffic light list for travel, the UK added no new countries to the green list and moved Portugal (including Madeira and the Azores) to the amber list from Tuesday (4am on June 8) due to “variants of concern and emerging mutations”, in particular the so-called Indian and Nepal variants of Covid-19. Seven countries –