FILE PHOTO: A park-goer sits on a bench overlooking Reagan National Airport, as United Airlines announced regional layoffs of its workers as a result of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., July 15, 2020.
WASHINGTON – Predominant U.S. and European Union airways requested the EU and White Dwelling on Tuesday to protect into consideration a joint U.S.-EU program to ascertain airline passengers for COVID-19 as a attain to enable folk to scoot once extra between the US and Europe.
In a letter to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Ylva Johansson, the European Commissioner for Dwelling Affairs, the chief executives of American Airlines (AAL.O), United Airlines (UAL.O), Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) and Global Airlines Neighborhood (ICAG.L) requested “the protected and swift restoration of air scoot between the US and Europe.”
Nearly about all Europeans are at cloak barred from touring to the US and identical restrictions are in pickle for Americans searching for to scoot to most of the EU as a end result of of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We detect that testing items a different of challenges, then all once more we assume that a pilot testing program for the transatlantic market will most likely be an very perfect different for executive and industrial to work collectively and procure ways to conquer boundaries and detect all alternate suggestions to guard correctly being, fabricate confidence, and safely restore passenger scoot between
the U.S. and Europe,” the airways wrote in the letter.
Lufthansa spokesman Andreas Bartels stated the airline “desired to boost this topic as a end result of we mediate there’s the chance to ascertain folk at the airport, as now we have demonstrated in Frankfurt.”
U.S. and EU officials in June talked about the foundation of testing as a attain to enable Americans to scoot to the EU however did now not attain settlement.
In June, the European Union excluded the US from its initial “protected list” of countries from which the bloc will enable nonessential scoot.
Closing week the U.S. Advise Department stated international college students coming from Europe are exempt from scoot restrictions adopted in March. The Advise Department stated in a memo seen by Reuters it would provide exemptions for some au pairs.
