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American Airlines and United Airlines, as well as International Airlines Group and Lufthansa Group, owner of Iberia Airlines, want regulators to allow more U.S. and Europeans to operate transatlantic flights, arguing that they want more consumers on those routes for their operations to recover.
“Given the undisputed importance of transatlantic air travel to the global economy, as well as for the economic recovery of our operations, it is imperative to find a way to reopen air facilities between the United States and Europe,” the CEOs said. of the 4 corporations wrote in a joint letter to US Vice President Mike Pence and the European Commissioner for Internal Affairs. Ylva Johansson.
The 4 airline teams now cross the Atlantic, serving major routes such as New York to Frankfurt, Dallas/Fort Worth to Madrid and Washington DC to Zurich. The challenge is that the visitor base is small, and US and European regulators impose strict limits on who can fly.
Most flights are presented with dual nationality, or consumers in transit at European airports, or passengers exempt from the ban, such as fitness personnel and diplomats. It is less difficult for Americans to stop in the UK, they have to be quarantined for two weeks on arrival.
The United States maintains similar restrictions on which travelers can enter from Europe. It first instituted restrictions in March, the first European wave.
While the letter is addressed to US and European leaders, this factor is more thorny in Europe, as it has fewer capita-consistent bodies than in the United States.
Europeans said they were involved in the growing number of Covid-19 cases in the United States and were involved in that an influx of Americans would lead to more cases. In their letter, the four CEOs acknowledge the Covid-19 problem, but said regulators can mitigate it by creating a joint testing programme between the US and the EU.
“We recognize that verification presents a number of challenges, but we believe that a pilot verification program for the transatlantic market can be a perfect opportunity for government and industry to combine and locate tactics to succeed over obstacles and explore all responses to protect health, build confidence and safely repair passenger travel between the United States and Europe.” Said. “A coordinated COVID-19 verification program may be a necessity to give mandatory confidence to allow facilities to resume without quarantine needs or other access restrictions.”
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