Airlines' legal challenge of UK quarantine policy to be heard early July - lawyers

LONDON (Reuters) - A legal challenge by British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair against the UK government's decision to introduce a 14-day quarantine for travellers will be heard in early July, barristers involved in the case said on Friday. 'The airlines claim that the regulations are irrational and disproportionate. A hearing has been listed for early July,' Blackstone Chambers said in a statement

Reuters June 20, 2020 00:06:48 IST
Airlines' legal challenge of UK quarantine policy to be heard early July - lawyers

Airlines legal challenge of UK quarantine policy to be heard early July  lawyers

LONDON (Reuters) - A legal challenge by British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair against the UK government's decision to introduce a 14-day quarantine for travellers will be heard in early July, barristers involved in the case said on Friday.

"The airlines claim that the regulations are irrational and disproportionate. A hearing has been listed for early July," Blackstone Chambers said in a statement.

(Reporting by Alistair Smout, Sarah Young, editing by William James)

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