TEMPUS

Few reasons to join this bumpy ride

Easyjet is Britain’s busiest airline and the largest operator at Gatwick, where these aircraft are parked for the duration of the lockdown
Easyjet is Britain’s busiest airline and the largest operator at Gatwick, where these aircraft are parked for the duration of the lockdown
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What will it take to get people back through an airport and on to an aircraft during this pandemic? Compulsory masks, socially distanced seating, mandatory Covid-19 testing, wild horses, or none of the above (Robert Lea writes)?

Research commissioned by the independent aviation analyst Chris Tarry reveals that 66 per cent of people want a test for the virus at the airport and that they would expect the result within 30 minutes.

About half reckon the government should pay for the test and of those willing to pay, about two thirds said they would be prepared to pay somewhere up to £20.

On quarantining — that returning passengers should put themselves into 14 days of isolation — about a quarter of travellers would still be