Based in Paris, Helen Massy-Beresford covers European and Middle Eastern airlines, the European Commission’s air transport policy and the air cargo industry for Aviation Week & Space Technology and Aviation Daily.
Helen combines a deep knowledge of the aviation industry with years of experience in journalism. She was a business reporter at Flight International in London before moving to Paris to work for Reuters as European Automotive Correspondent. She has written for a variety of publications including the Guardian, the Observer, the Telegraph, Airline Business and Aircraft Cabin Management.
Despite top-down recommendations from the European Council, EU member states are managing their own travel rules in different ways which has created confusion.
The aviation sector has welcomed the UK government’s move to simplify COVID-19 travel rules, saying the move is a step toward recovery and that it should help pent-up demand to be transformed into ticket sales.