International flights from China are capped and running at around 2% of 2019 levels, a situation expected to last until the second half of next year. It will have less impact travel from China, which requires its residents to quarantine for at least two weeks on return home. ambassador, Emily Haber, said on Twitter it was "hugely important to promote people-to-people contacts and transatlantic business." British Airways parent IAG SA (ICAG.L) rose 11.2%, while Air France-KLM (AIRF.PA) and Deutsche Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) AG closed up more than 5%.īritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the announcement "a fantastic boost for business and trade, and great that family and friends on both sides of the pond can be reunited once again." Germany's U.S. airlines were little changed, while some European carriers gained. announcement "marks a historic moment and one which will provide a huge boost to Global Britain as it emerges from this pandemic." cases were reported on Sunday.īritish Airways Chief Executive Sean Doyle said the U.S.
COVID-19 infections and deaths have skyrocketed since June as the Delta variant spreads, particularly among the unvaccinated. This is when the process concluded," she said. "If we were going to make things much easier for ourselves, we would have done it prior to June, when the president had his first foreign trip, or earlier this summer. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday the policy was not timed for diplomacy. General Assembly speech on Tuesday, and hosts leaders from Britain, India, Japan and Australia this week. The announcement comes as President Joe Biden makes his first U.N. 'BASING IT ON SCIENCE'Īirlines for America, an industry trade group, said that through late August, international air travel was down 43% from pre-pandemic levels. Monday's action means COVID-19 vaccine requirements will now apply to nearly all foreign nationals flying to the United States - including those not subject to the prior restrictions.Īmericans traveling from abroad who are not vaccinated will face tougher rules than vaccinated citizens, including needing to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test within a day of travel and proof of purchasing a viral test to be taken after arrival. The United States has allowed foreign air travelers from more than 150 countries throughout the pandemic, a policy that critics said made little sense because some countries with high COVID-19 rates were not on the restricted list, while some on the list had the pandemic more under control.
It gave no indication if it would apply the new vaccine rules to those land border crossings. Separately on Monday, the United States extended its pandemic-related restrictions at land borders with Canada and Mexico that bar nonessential travel such as tourism through Oct. Zients did not give a precise start date for the new rules beyond saying "early November," and many details of the new policy are still being decided. citizens were first imposed on air travelers from China in January 2020 by then-President Donald Trump and then extended to dozens of other countries, without any clear metrics for how and when to lift them.
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