Anyone from outside the Bailiwick of Guernsey wishing to travel between 22 March 2021 and 30 April 2021 will currently be subject to a mandatory 14 days of self-isolation on arrival in Guernsey, Alderney.

For full guidance on on self-isolation and other aspects of travel please visit the States of Guernsey's website. 

In line with guidance agreed with the States of Guernsey's Public Health Services team, passengers must continue to wear face masks at all times in the following circumstances. 

• Arriving into Guernsey and onto their self-isolation address.

• Whilst transiting through the Guernsey Airport passenger terminal building and waiting for a flight conection to Alderney. Alderney bound passengers must immediately proceed to check in, through security to the designated seating area provided in departures.

• All passengers must wear a face mask or a face covering when entering the terminal building in both Guernsey and Alderney Airports for departing flights.

Passengers travelling into or out of the Bailiwick of Guernsey must follow these requirements.

Advice on picking up passengers before they embark on self-isolation can be found here.

There no longer a legal requirement to hold an essential travel permit from the States of Guernsey.

To secure an Essential Travel Permit, travellers who are an ordinarily resident need to fill out an online form by clicking here.

Those travellers who are not ordinarily resident of the Bailiwick of Guernsey will need to complete this online form by clicking here. 

Provided a journey meets the criteria, passengers will receive a permit within 48 to 72 hours by the States of Guernsey.

Passengers will need to have this permit before they travel as they may be asked to show it at the point of departure and/or upon arrival in the Bailiwick.

Passengers arriving into the Bailiwick will also need to create a Travel Tracker account and register their journey. The only exemption to this is intra-Bailiwick flights. 

If your travel is disrupted and you need to amend your travel history you can go online to the Travel Tracker and register a new journey. On the day of travel your updated journey will be at the top of the list of planned journeys.

Those travelling as critical workers are treated are treated separately and do not need an Essential Travel Permit, but they must apply for permission to travel through the existing critical worker application process by clicking here.

Alongside the Essential Travel Permit, the detail of what is considered essential has been reviewed further by the States of Guernsey. As well as critical workers, essential travel is considered to mean:

• for a compassionate purpose (including but not limited to supporting a dependent relative),

• to receive medical treatment,

• to accompany a child or vulnerable person into or out of the Bailiwick,

• to undertake essential business activity which is critical to the business and cannot be carried out remotely,

• to meet legal obligations such as attending court proceedings,

• to attend or return from school, university or other further education,

• for anyone ordinarily Bailiwick residents, to return home if they travelled off-Island before the 12th January,

• moving to the Bailiwick where a property has been purchased and the process of moving is already underway,

• to take up employment where the position has already been secured with a local employer or where the work is essential.

Essential travel does not include travel:

• to visit friends and family based in the Bailiwick,

• to work remotely in the Bailiwick if that work is not critical work and approved through the critical worker application process,

• to stay at a ‘second home’ where the person is not ordinarily resident in the Bailiwick.

Those who travel with an Essential Travel Permit will still be required to adhere to all of the Bailiwick’s other travel restrictions including self-isolation and testing rules further information on these can be found by clicking here.

Further information access arrangements, pick up advice and Critical Worker Travel can be found on the home page main menu of airport.gg under 'COVID-19'.