Airport hotel chain 'kept in dark' over UK Covid quarantine plan

Best Western boss says it offered to help with scheme for arrivals but has not been contacted

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The head of one of the UK’s biggest airport hotel chains said his company had been “kept in the dark” over the government’s plan to quarantine international arrivals.

The UK chief executive of Best Western, Rob Paterson, said the chain had made multiple offers to help with the isolation plans, first announced by ministers in mid-January, but “simply haven’t heard anything”.