NEWS FLASH
The European Commission has advised its member states to remove the ban on non-essential travel for citizens of third countries who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, as well as for those who have recovered from the virus. Updating the recommendation on the temporary restriction of non-essential travel into the EU, the bloc’s Council noted the newly introduced recommendation comes as a result of the evolution of the pandemic, as well as the high share of the world population vaccinated against Covid-19. According to the Council, EU members should permit entry for non-essential travellers who are vaccinated with one of the jabs that have approval by the European Medicines Agency or the World Health Organization, without the need for additional testing. Although each member state makes their own rules on entry requirements, the majority follow European Commission guidelines, with Italy already announcing it will adopt the new policy from next week. The lifting of entry bans and restrictions by most EU members would provide a major boost for the aviation industry in former Yugoslav markets outside of the European Union, which heavily rely on traffic to and from the bloc as their main source of passengers.
It would be great if countries finally listen and adopt the WHO vaccine list. Most people in Mongenegro, Serbia and Macedonia are vaccinated with the Chinese one.
ReplyDeleteAnyone know what's the Italian policy from next week?
ReplyDeleteFrom 1 March third-country nationals entering Italy will be able to enter without being subject to additional entry rules (isolaton) as long as they hold a vaccination or recovery certificate or a negative COVID-19 test result.
DeleteThank you, will they recognize WHO vaccines or are they still being difficult?
DeleteOnly EU vaccines but you can take a pre-departure covid test if unvaccinated or vaccinated with Chinese or Russian vaccine and of negative can enter Italy without further restrictions. It seems this will also be dropped from 31st of March.
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DeleteI just read online that the minister of health said that more information will be available in the coming days. Hopefully they lift the restrictions for all vaccinated people as this discrimination by Rome really needs to end.
DeleteWithout an EU-approved vaccine you don't have a valid Green Pass, which means that you basically can't do anything once inside Italy, so entering as such is a moot point.
DeleteGood news for Wizz Air.
ReplyDeleteGood news for our friends in sLOVEnia. Starting from 28.02 JU is boosting BEG-LJU from 6 to 8 and then from 14.03 from 8 to 10 weekly! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd now the bad news: I see that Iberia stopped selling tickets for MAD-LJU. Always when there are some good news, bad ones come. Its always like that.
DeleteMaybe they are updating the fares and flights in the system. Usually when that happens everything gets removed before they load it again?
DeleteStarting from 07.03 Air Serbia is increasing BEG-VIE from 7 to 10 weekly. This is new. Seems like they added flights today.
DeleteAnon 16:11 I wouldn't be surprised if they would cancel the route.
DeleteBut I thought they did well? Maybe they lost some transfers to FR in ZAG. We saw in the trip report how many Slovenes are helping this route not to get cut.
DeleteBecause airlines can still do very well in LJU yet they terminate routes. Iberia and Aegean both had quite good LF, yet both canceled LJU. BA did well last year and its still same frequency for this year, Easyjet would fly on 4 routes and carry like 300k passengers, they were to be the biggest airline at LJU, now they fly a few times per week. Nothing goes right at LJU.
DeleteIf planes are full but airlines are leaving then it means the airport is expensive and airlines are not making enough money. Unfortunately Germans are running the airport and they are not very creative in that regard, it will be business as usual.
DeleteIberia did not cancel LJU. I heard that they stopped selling tickets because they will probably change their schedule quite a bit.
Deleteyou again, where did you hear that? damn, i really hope for more flights. MORE! Much more!
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