Heathrow and Gatwick airport: Full list of flight destinations with no quarantine on return to UK
With Surrey and the rest of England currently in a national lockdown, airports remain open only for essential travel.
International travel is only permitted if passengers have a legally permitted reason to leave home. This means you must not go on holiday.
If residents do need to travel overseas (and are legally permitted to do so, for example, for work), even if returning to a place previously visited, passengers should look at the rules in place at their destination.
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Two airports on the Surrey borders, Gatwick and Heathrow are still operating flights and a travel corridor remains in place meaning passengers travelling for essential means can visit certain countries without the need to quarantine on their return to the UK.
The full list of destination with no need to quarantine on return to UK
Passengers must have spent the last 10 days in one of these places, or in the UK and will still need to complete a passenger locator form before entering the UK.
Also, there could still be restrictions on visiting certain European destinations if the UK does not get put on the EU’s “safe” list, so do check before heading off to another country.
Countries, territories and regions can be taken off or added to this travel corridor list at any time. The information is correct as of Saturday (January 9).
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Australia
- the Azores
- Bahrain
- Barbados
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bonaire/St Eustatius/Saba
- British Antarctic Territory
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- Cayman Islands
- the Channel Islands
- Chile
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Falkland Islands
- Faroe Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- Finland
- Gibraltar
- Greek islands: Corfu, Crete, Kos, Rhodes, Zakynthos
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Hong Kong
- Iceland
- Ireland
- the Isle of Man
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Laos
- Macao (Macau)
- Madeira
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Montserrat
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Norway
- Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Samoa
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Korea
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Sri Lanka
- St Barthélemy
- St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- St Kitts and Nevis
- St Lucia
- St Pierre and Miquelon
- St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tonga
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Arab Emirates
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
Changes to the travel corridor list
Botswana, Israel (and Jerusalem), Mauritius and Seychelles were removed from the exempt list at 4am on January 9. If you arrive from any of these destinations after this date, you will need to self-isolate. No countries, territories or regions have been added to the travel corridor list.
Testing of international arrivals at airports
Passengers arriving from international destinations will now be required to present a negative COVID-19 test result before departing for England.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps made the announcement on Friday (January 8) that from next week inbound passengers arriving by boat, plane or train will have to take a test up to 72 hours before departing the country they are in, to help protect against the new strains of coronavirus such as those seen in Denmark and South Africa.
The Government claims pre-departure testing will protect travel and provide an additional layer of safety from imported cases of coronavirus on top of the mandatory 10-day self-isolation for arrivals, helping identify people who may currently be infectious and prevent them from travelling to England.