Airlines have given fresh hopes of an international summer holiday after drawing up a list of 45 countries that they want to be exempt from quarantine restrictions.
Top holiday spots Spain, Greece and the United States all feature on the list, along with Turkey and Mexico.
According to the Daily Mail, government ministers have been handed a list of 45 nations to prioritise travel between, which has been agreed by airlines including easyJet, Virgin Atlantic and British Airways.
From June 8, all travellers to Britain must spend two-weeks isolating at a single address, even if they have travelled from a country with a low rate of infection.
Arrivals will have to reveal where travellers will be staying and anyone who doesn't comply faces a fine of up to £1,000.
The proposal would enable quarantine-free travel this summer - something already implemented between Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Now airlines want the first travel corridors to be set up by the end this month "at the latest", sources said.
Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has claimed that most people in the UK will ignore the new quarantine rules.
Mr O'Leary said he thinks authorities will be powerless to enforce the policy that was introduced to reduce the spread of Covid-19.
He believes the rules will be "quietly dropped" or "formally withdrawn" by the end of June as they will not work.
He told the Mail on Sunday : "You can fill up your arrival card as Mickey Mouse, 1 Walt Disney Street, London SW22 – they’ll take the cards and off you go. So it’s a complete shambles.
"The Home Office, Border Force and police will all tell you quietly, and off the record, it [quarantine] is completely unimplementable."
Senior Tory MPs have also publicly criticised the quarantine plan - with some claiming it will irreversibly damage the travel industry.
Huw Merriman, Conservative chairman of the transport select committee, told the Telegraph: "Personally, I think it's the wrong policy at this time and disproportionately impacts the economy.
"We should ditch blanket quarantine and self-distancing on planes and have different measures such as air bridges, compulsory PPE and temperature testing at airports."
Former Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers also gave her backing for the scheme to be altered, telling BBC Radio 4’s Westminster Hour: “I would very much prefer the quarantine rules … be targeted on flights from Covid hotspots.
“I think we really do need to find ways to ease travel between this country and other countries like Italy and Spain and France where not only are there important business connections but people do desperately want to be able to take their summer holiday.”
