Virgin Atlantic has introduced its plan to restart passenger flying to 17 further locations from August.
Following the airline’s announcement that providers from London Heathrow are anticipated to renew from July 20th onwards, Virgin Atlantic has unveiled extra detailed plans that can see passenger flying restart to many locations throughout the airline’s community.
New locations embrace Hong Kong (to relaunch on July 20th), Barbados (August 1st), Shanghai (August 4th), Lagos (August 23rd) and Atlanta (August 25th).
Washington, Seattle and Las Vegas in the US, in addition to Johannesburg and Mumbai, are anticipated to comply with in August.
Juha Jarvinen, chief industrial officer, Virgin Atlantic commented: “As international locations around the globe start to chill out journey restrictions, we look ahead to welcoming our prospects again onboard and flying them safely to many locations throughout our community.
“From July 20th we’re planning to renew some providers after which from August onwards, we’ll resume passenger flying to 17 further locations around the globe together with Tel Aviv, Miami, Lagos and San Francisco.”
He added: “Nonetheless, we’re monitoring exterior situations extraordinarily carefully, specifically the journey restrictions many international locations have in place together with the 14-day quarantine coverage for travellers getting into the UK.
“We all know that because the Covid-19 disaster subsides, air journey might be an important enabler of the UK’s financial restoration.
“Subsequently, we’re calling for UK authorities to repeatedly overview its quarantine measures and as a substitute take a look at a multi-layered method of rigorously focused public well being and screening measures, together with air bridges, which is able to help a profitable and protected restart of worldwide air journey for passengers and companies.”
Seasonal providers from Glasgow and Belfast to Orlando will resume for chosen dates in summer time 2021.
