With all British schools now closed for the summer, airports and airlines were looking a tad more normal on Saturday, although the number of families heading off for warmer climes remains way down from before the coronavirus pandemic.
This weekend traditionally marks the great summer getaway from Britain, with airports jam-packed with excitable children and their anxious parents heading off mostly to the popular beach resorts of southern Europe, from Portugal's Algarve coast in the west to the sun-soaked island nation of Cyprus to the east.
The British government, which has been operating a traffic-light system for overseas travel, recently tweaked its rules to make it simpler for fully-vaccinated individuals and their families to travel. Now, anyone arriving back in England from "amber" list destinations -- including Greece, Spain and the United States -- are exempt from the government's 10-day quarantine requirement subject to testing requirements.
Airports and airlines across the U.K. are enjoying their busiest weekend of the year so far. London's Heathrow Airport said it was expecting about 129,000 passengers on Saturday and Sunday. Though welcome, that's about half the number it saw two years ago.
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