What if you leave just before a country is removed from travel corridor and return from exempt place

wkt54

I read on BBC news, a couple from the UK who were in Croatia last Friday, couldn't get a flight back to the UK, so they took a ferry to Italy on Friday, before the 4am Saturday deadline.
They were thinking what the OP is thinking.
If they left Croatia before the deadline, and went to an exempt country, they could return to the UK and not have to quarantine.
But I don't know what the outcome was.

sheramber

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-travel-corridors

You will need to self-isolate if you visited or made a transit stop in a country or territory that is not on the travel corridor list in the 14 days before you arrive in England.

This applies to all travel to England, by train, ferry, coach, air or any other route.

So they would need to stay in Italy  until 14 days from leaving the listed country is up, before  traveling back to UK to avoid  self isolating. If they arrived back before the 14 days was up they would need to self isolate for the balance of the time.  e.g. 6 days in Italy, 8 days self isolation in UK.
The regulations apply if you have been in a listed country in the 14 days before you arrive. 

It  doesn't matter if the country was exempt up to one minute before you arrive in UK.  It is whether it is listed at the time you arrive in UK. if it is  if you have been  in that country within thee last 14 days  you  self isolate.

It does mean that if you arrive one minute before the cut off time you do not need to self isolate, but if you arrive from the  same country one minute after the cut off time you do need to self isolate

wkt54

Thanks
So the couple who took the ferry to Italy, if they found a flight from Italy and landed in the UK before 4am Saturday, they wouldn't have had to self-isolate?

silvercar

wkt54 said:

Thanks
So the couple who took the ferry to Italy, if they found a flight from Italy and landed in the UK before 4am Saturday, they wouldn't have had to self-isolate?

Correct.
Not sure of all flight schedules, but landing in the middle of the night on short hauls on scheduled airlines is not that common.

epm-84

silvercar said:

wkt54 said:

Thanks
So the couple who took the ferry to Italy, if they found a flight from Italy and landed in the UK before 4am Saturday, they wouldn't have had to self-isolate?

Not sure of all flight schedules, but landing in the middle of the night on short hauls on scheduled airlines is not that common.

Manchester Airport has a ban on scheduled night time departures (10pm to 6am) but arrivals are permitted 24/7 and many airlines who offer package holidays like Jet2 and TUI have early morning arrivals at Manchester so their planes are ready to depart with fresh passengers once takeoffs can recommence.

bradders1983

epm-84 said:

silvercar said:

wkt54 said:

Thanks
So the couple who took the ferry to Italy, if they found a flight from Italy and landed in the UK before 4am Saturday, they wouldn't have had to self-isolate?

Not sure of all flight schedules, but landing in the middle of the night on short hauls on scheduled airlines is not that common.

Manchester Airport has a ban on scheduled night time departures (10pm to 6am) but arrivals are permitted 24/7 and many airlines who offer package holidays like Jet2 and TUI have early morning arrivals at Manchester so their planes are ready to depart with fresh passengers once takeoffs can recommence.

Indeed, plenty of TUI flights land at T2 in the dead of night, usually from Greece and Turkey where I assume there is no restriction on local take off times.