Having to take Covid tests after returning to the UK may be scrapped as early as Monday amid changes being discussed.
Currently, double jabbed travellers have to take rapid lateral flow tests once they arrive home, adding extra expense to breaks away.
But in a boost to the travel industry, as well as people suffering January blues, the tests could be ditched from next week, making it easier to take holidays, reports claim.
The Cabinet’s “Covid O” committee is also set to discuss whether being fully vaccinated means having two jabs, or also having the booster.
There are also discussions being held to make passenger locator forms easier to use.
It comes as a study published on Friday said testing rules should be a ‘thing of the past’ for jabbed passengers.
Conducted by specialist consultants Oxera and Edge Health, the research shows Governments cannot react quickly enough to be effective against new variants of Covid.
As a result, travel restrictions made in response to new discoveries do not help limit the spread, they argue.
Airlines UK CEO Tim Alderslade said: “Testing restrictions for the fully vaccinated make no sense at all given the delay in Governments being able to detect and act on the arrival of a new variant, as we saw with Omicron.
“This is something the World Health Organisation themselves have admitted. Not only do they fail to suppress the international spread of variants, they place a disproportionate burden on the travel sector and those that rely on the connectivity aviation provides.
“We need to be smarter in how we deal with future variants rather than resorting to blanket but wholly ineffective measures. Otherwise we will never be able to truly say we are living with Covid.”
Airlines UK and MAG, which owns Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, are calling on Ministers to not only remove all remaining restrictions on international travel, but to reconsider their role in reacting to future variants of coronavirus.
Brits looking to book holidays have plenty of options, with a number of countries open to UK holidaymakers including Greece, Portugal and Cyprus.
