{"id":114920,"date":"2021-06-05T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=114920"},"modified":"2021-06-05T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T00:10:29","slug":"passengers-from-sl-will-not-be-allowed-to-travel-to-uk-after-june-8-srilankan-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/06\/05\/passengers-from-sl-will-not-be-allowed-to-travel-to-uk-after-june-8-srilankan-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers from SL will not be allowed to travel to UK after June 8: SriLankan Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The SriLankan Airlines announced today that passengers from Sri Lanka will not be allowed to travel to the United Kingdom from June 8 unless they are a British, Irish national or anyone with residence rights in the UK as Sri Lanka will move to the red list\u201d of countries entering the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said Passengers who have already booked their travel on SriLankan\u2019s next three flights to London UL 503 on 05th, 06th, and 07th June will not be affected by this change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SriLankan said in a statement that the passengers who were allowed to travel must take a COVID-19 test and obtain a negative result three days (72 hours) before their travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also need to book a managed quarantine hotel within a 14-day period before arrival. The booking will include hotel, quarantine transport and travel tests for COVID-19 tests on day 2 and day 8 of quarantine. Complete a passenger locator form (PLF) with details of where passenger will quarantine when they arrive. Passengers must provide a quarantine package invoice number to complete their passenger locator form,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passengers need to book their quarantine hotel and day 2 and day 8 tests on https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/booking-and-staying-in-a-quarantine-hotel-when-you-arrive-in-england&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The passenger locator form is available on&nbsp;<strong>https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/provide-journey-contact-details-before-travel-uk<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further information and clarifications, passengers are requested to contact their travel agents, their nearest SriLankan Airlines Office, or the Airlines\u2019 Global Contact Centre on&nbsp;<strong>+94117771979&nbsp;<\/strong>or visit our website&nbsp;<strong>www.srilankan.com.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The SriLankan Airlines announced today that passengers from Sri Lanka will not be allowed to travel to the United Kingdom from June 8 unless they are a British, Irish national or anyone with residence rights in the UK as Sri Lanka will move to the red list\u201d of countries entering the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}