Comments by President Joe Biden encouraged airlines to hope that travel between the United States and Europe could be expanded in time for the summer end holiday trips.
At a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Biden was asked about ending restrictions that made the most of European visitors enter the United States.
Biden said on Thursday that a team that advised him on a pandemic “bringing it.
This is in the process (remembering) how fast we can lift the ban …
and I will be able to answer that question to you next few days.” Officials with associations US journey, trade group for the broader tourism industry, praised Biden’s comments.
“Science says we can safely reopen international trips now, especially for countries that have made great progress to vaccinate their citizens,” said Tori Emerson Barnes, Vice President of the executive policy of travel groups, citing studies that concluded that there was a low risk.
Transmitting the virus during the flight.
“Every day that the restrictions on that era will cause economic damage in our country.” Airlines for America, a trading group representing the large US operator, said “time to act now” to reopen to international visitors.
The group noted that the US allows trips to and from Mexico, where less than a third of the population is vaccinated, while greatly limiting the travel from Canada and Britain, two countries with relatively high vaccination rates.
Rises and the prevalence of the Covid-19 variant in Europe, especially the delta mutation which also spread throughout the US, has caused the gift of Biden to step slowly about the increase in transatlantic trips.
Last month, the Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the administration wants to restore the trip “completely and as fast as possible,” but said he could not give a date to reopen the country.
“We must be guided by science, with medical expertise.” Most of Europe continents have restrictions relaxed in Americans who are fully vaccinated, although Britain still requires quarantine for most visitors who arrive from the US airline saying that the lack of two-way trips limit the number of flights they can offer and the chairs they can sell.
In recent months, USLines have started new services to European countries that are open to American visitors.
Delta launched new services or continued to Greece, Iceland, and Croatia, which opened earlier to vaccination of foreigners.
In some cases, Americans tested negatively for viruses can pass the existing quarantine requirements for other visitors.
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said this week that orders by Americans soared when the countries were reopened and others followed.
“The problem is, there are only Americans that we carry (to Europe) and carry out,” said Bastian to the Associated Press.
With most Europeans cannot enter the US, Delta has been forced to maintain its transatlantic capacity in about half the level before the pandemic, he said.