Virgin Atlantic ‘hopeful’ flights from UK will restart in September

Monday, July 10, 2023

Virgin Atlantic is “hopeful” that travel from the UK to the US will be able to restart from September, after a hiatus of 18 months.

The airline’s vice president of global sales, Lee Haslett, told Travel Weekly stated that they are ready.They know their competitors are ready. And they know as a travel industry, they are ready to run.

The carrier reported a bookings spike of 100 per cent week-on-week after the British government’s announcement that travellers fully vaccinated in the US would be able to enter the UK without quarantining.

Mr. Haslett also stated that they are seeing very strong business from the US inbound to the UK adding that bookings from New York JFK had jumped 250 per cent following the Department for Transport’s announcement on 2 August.

However, there is currently no reciprocal agreement in place – the US has been off limits to Brits since March 2020, regardless of vaccination status, with no clear indication of when the travel ban might lift.

Two further months of the travel ban would extend to the second week of October, while a three-month continuation would take the ban until November.

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