Brits Finally Traveling Again Means Long Lines and Costly Tests
- Required checks may add $400 to price of ticket: Airline group
- Border delays could strangle passenger flow through Heathrow
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The U.K. government’s decision to loosen border rules frees Britons to feed their pent-up appetite for leisure travel. But getting to a sun spot and back this summer will be neither easy nor particularly cheap.
The new policy that takes effect on May 17 lists just a handful of destinations -- including Portugal, Israel and Singapore -- as green in the so-called traffic-light system. For now, Greece and Spain are excluded, and most of the dozen deemed safe aren’t yet accepting visitors.