Travel news latest: Open UK-US corridor, urge airline bosses

<div></div> <article itemprop="articleBody" data-js="article-body" data-insert-mobile-adslot=""> <div class="articleBodyText version-2 section"> <div class="article-body-text component version-2"> <div class="component-content"> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/advice/key-dates-travel-roadmap-means-holiday/">The key dates on the travel roadmap</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/advice/key-dates-travel-roadmap-means-holiday/">Is it legal to go on an ‘amber list’ holiday?</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/articles/best-uk-hotels-open-coronavirus-rules-guidelines-covid/">The latest rules on hotel stays</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/secure/newsletter/?urlPath=travel&icid=travel_newsletter-travel_generic_signup-page">Sign up to the Telegraph Travel newsletter</a></strong></li> </ul> <p><span class="m_first-letter">T</span>ransatlantic travel must be opened up without delay, according to a coalition of industry bosses. </p> <p>Virgin Atlantic, British Airways, Heathrow Airport and a group of US travel bosses are urging President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson to put a UK-US travel corridor “on the agenda” when they meet at the G7 conference in Cornwall this week.</p> <p>“In the UK, a day’s delay of opening up the corridor between UK and US costs the economy £23 million,” Shai Weiss, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday.</p> <p>He said he had supported the traffic light system for the resumption of travel, but that it had not been put into use: “[the] data and methodology underpinning decisions not been made public or clear to any of us,” he added. “Malta, the US and Caribbean should definitely be on green status.”</p> <p>Mr Weiss’ comments came as Portugal, the only major summer sun destination on the green list, turned amber.</p> <p>Gibraltar is now the only green-listed destination that is fully open to unvaccinated Britons and Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned that<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/06/07/overseas-summer-holidays-hold-formedium-term/"> summer holidays abroad</a> are off for the “medium term” because of the need to protect domestic freedoms “at all costs”.</p> <p><strong>Scroll down for the latest travel updates.</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="live-stream js-live-stream component" data-options="{'live_stream_url':'/travel/news/travel-green-list-news-summer-holidays-portugal-spain-malta.livestream.json/TIMESTAMP.json','refresh_interval':'30','livestream_enabled':'true'}"> <div class="component-content"> <div class="live-stream__bar"> <div class="live-stream__bar-wrapper"> <p class="live-stream__bar-text">Auto update</p> <p><button class="live-stream__bar-button js-button-is-on"><br /> <span class="live-stream__bar-button-text live-stream__bar-button-on">On</span><br /> <span class="live-stream__bar-button-text live-stream__bar-button-off">Off</span><br /> <span class="live-stream__bar-button-inner"></span><br /> </button> </div> </div> <article itemprop="articleBody" class="live-stream__post-wrapper"> <div class="live-post js-live-post component" id="livepost" data-timestamp="0"> <div class="component-content live-post__wrapper"> <div class="live-post__wrapper-body"> <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/travel-green-list-news-summer-holidays-portugal-spain-malta/#update-20210608-0823"><time class="live-post__wrapper-body-timestamp-full" datetime="2021-06-08T08:23:15.759+01:00">8:23AM</time></a></p> <div class="live-post__wrapper-body-article"> <h3 class="live-post__title">What happened yesterday?</h3> <div class="articleBodyText section"> <div class="article-body-text component "> <div class="component-content"> <p><span class="m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged">H</span>ere’s a recap of the main headlines from Monday: </p> <ul> <li><strong>Spain opens borders to all vaccinated tourists</strong></li> <li><strong>Holidaymakers race back from Portugal to beat quarantine</strong></li> <li><strong>Cruise ships return to Venice </strong></li> <li><strong>Randox cuts PCR travel testing costs to ‘cheapest available’</strong></li> <li><strong>Just 1.5% of Portugal arrivals tested positive for Covid before it was amber-listed </strong></li> <li><strong>Hancock: Resuming travel ‘challenging’</strong></li> </ul> <p>Now onto today’s news</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> </article> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://patabook.com/travel/2021/06/08/travel-news-latest-open-uk-us-corridor-urge-airline-bosses/">Travel news latest: Open UK-US corridor, urge airline bosses</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://patabook.com/travel">Patabook Travel</a>.</p>

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