Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

British Airways ditches its Gatwick short-haul operation.Those BA passengers stranded in Tashkent – are they due compensation?And the UK airport that lost almost £1,000 for every passenger it handled in a year.Sign up to Simon's free weekly newsletter at independent.co.uk/newsletters and all the very latest is available 24hrs a day at independent.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Red list reduces – but Foreign Office still warns against travel to Egypt.British Airways passengers stranded in Tashkent.And The Wizard of Oz – what’s that got to do with travel to France?Sign up to Simon's free weekly newsletter at independent.co.uk/newsletters and all the very latest is available 24hrs a day at independent.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

National Express and Megabus could be about to merge.More on the US opening up – with particular attention to the rules on jabs and kids.And my beautiful quarantine laundrettes: could Turkey and the US become the places for UK-bound travellers from Africa and Latin America respectively to shed their “red list” status?Sign up to Simon's free weekly newsletter at independent.co.uk/newsletters and all the very latest is available 24hrs a day at independent.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The US opens up – so how can you take an American adventure?And I’ve been at Battersea Power Station for the opening of two new stations on the London Underground.Sign up to Simon's free weekly newsletter at independent.co.uk/newsletters and all the very latest is available 24hrs a day at independent.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What’s the score for children returning to the UK – do they need to self-isolate or not?Some more detail on the government’s travel changes.And The Netherlands opens up – but with strings, or rather swabs, attached.Sign up to Simon's free weekly newsletter at independent.co.uk/newsletters and all the very latest is available 24hrs a day at independent.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More on the international travel rules – and the incoherence across the UK.A year late, red list hubs are opening up – underwhelming.And how Turkey will become the quarantine laundrette.Sign up to Simon's free weekly newsletter at independent.co.uk/newsletters and all the very latest is available 24hrs a day at independent.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The international travel rules have changed.I’ll explain why we’re still on red, amber and green.And how the testing regime will change.Sign up to Simon's free weekly newsletter at independent.co.uk/newsletters and all the very latest is available 24hrs a day at independent.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The waiting game goes on – how I predict international travel rules will change.What could happen to the despised red list.And trains turn out to be much more punctual if there are fewer of them, and hardly any passengers.Sign up to Simon's free weekly newsletter at independent.co.uk/newsletters and all the very latest is available 24hrs a day at independent.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Passport validity – the travel giants agree with me, at last.Qantas vows to start flying from the UK to Australia by Christmas. Probably.And Switzerland’s national airline starts selling its sandwiches at cut prices.Sign up to Simon's free weekly newsletter at independent.co.uk/newsletters and all the very latest is available 24hrs a day at independent.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Red alert – what could change in the next "traffic light" review?Boeing says, we’re back in business.And Tubes and trains are still cordoning seats off from passengers.Sign up to Simon's free weekly newsletter at independent.co.uk/newsletters and all the very latest is available 24hrs a day at independent.co.uk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.