In this file photo taken June 8, 2020, Virgin Atlantic Airline planes on the apron at Manchester Airport in north-west England. — AFP picWASHINGTON, May 3 — A coalition of US and European travel, airline, union, business and airport groups today called for fully reopening the US-UK air travel market “as soon as safely possible.”
“The return of Transatlantic flying would not only have a significantly positive impact on our respective economies but will also reunite those who have been separated from their loved ones for over a year,” said the letter, signed by the US Chamber of Commerce, Airlines for America, Global Business Travel Association, Air Line Pilots Association, Virgin Atlantic, Association of UK Airlines, Aerospace Industries Association and others.
One question remains whether the US government will participate in helping Americans establish to foreign governments that they have been fully vaccinated in order to travel.