Industry hopes that the Passenger Locator Form (PLF) required of international arrivals to the UK could be gone by the Easter school holidays are rising.
Industry commentator Paul Charles tweeted on Tuesday that he expected the PLF to be removed as soon as March 18. Meanwhile, Transport Select Committee chair Huw Merriman told a Business Travel Association conference in London last week: “I’m pretty confident we’ll get [the form] dropped by Easter.
“We don’t need all these questions domestically. Why have we all these questions for international travel?”
The Department of Health is opposed to removing the PLF, he said, suggesting the department remains “sore” at the removal of Covid-19 testing requirements for fully vaccinated arrivals from February 11.
Merriman argued: “We’ve got to get back to where we were. I think we’ll get there by Easter.”
The PLF is the means by which airlines and Border Force identify arrivals’ vaccination status.
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