Green, amber and red -where you can go from Newcastle Airport

Portugal will be removed from the green travel list, while Egypt is due to be downgraded to red, which could affect holidays from Newcastle Airport

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Simon MeechanSEO Writer

08:00, 5 JUN 2021

Newcastle International Airport (Image: Copyright Unknown)

Portugal will be removed from the UK's quarantine-free green travel list, which could put a spanner in the works for holidaymakers planning to fly from Newcastle International Airport.

Flights from Newcastle to Faro, on Portugal's Algarve coast, and the Portuguese island territory of Madeira, are a popular choice with tourists from the North East, but anybody arriving back into the UK from Portugal after Tuesday June 8 will be required to quarantine at home for 10 days, as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has confirmed it will move Portugal from the green to the amber list next week.

Hays Travel boss Dame Irene Hays expressed her disappointment about the decision to downgrade Portugal to amber.

She told Sky News she was “disappointed for our customers, disappointed for the travel industry and really disappointed for Portugal, because they’ve tried so hard and their infection rates are so low. I know they’re rising in Lisbon, but it’s quite a way from the Algarve, which is where most of the tourists are”.

The change and plan to add no new countries to the green list will mean none of the international destination passengers can fly to direct from Newcastle are on the green list. Passengers arriving from the Republic of Ireland do not have to quarantine, but that's because Ireland shares a common travel area with England and the rest of the UK, so it is not added to green, amber or red lists.

Another of Newcastle Airport's summer 2021 destinations, Hurghada in Egypt, is set to downgraded from amber to red, which essentially means people are banned from travelling between England and Egypt unless it is absolutely essential. Anybody arriving from Egypt after Tuesday June 8 must fork out to self-isolate in an approved hotel.

Where you can fly to from Newcastle Airport this summer - and the rules for when you return

Every international destination on Newcastle Airport's Summer 2021 programme , other than the Republic of Ireland, will be on the amber or red list after Tuesday.

Passengers arriving into England from amber countries will have to isolate at home for 10 days, take a Covid-19 test before they depart and two more after they arrive in the UK.

Only those who reside in the UK or Ireland can enter the UK from red countries and they must quarantine at an approved hotel for 10 days at their own expense, take a Covid-19 test before they depart for the UK and two more once they are in the UK. Anybody who has been in a red list country in the 10 days before they arrive in the UK must follow the red list rules, even if they travel to Britain via an amber country.

The FCO says holidaymakers "should not" travel to red or amber list countries, although some tourists are ignoring the advice and the Government does not stop people from travelling to amber nations.