As the end of summer nears, it looks increasingly unlikely that the UK-US travel corridor will open in the short term.
On 26 July, the Biden administration announced it will maintain restrictions on a range of countries, including the EU and China, for the foreseeable future, because of concerns about the rapidly spreading Covid-19 Delta variant and rising coronavirus cases in the country.
“Given where we are today … with the Delta variant, we will maintain existing travel restrictions at this point,” White House spokesperson Jen Psaki told a press conference.
“Driven by the Delta variant, cases are rising here at home, particularly among those who are unvaccinated and appear likely continue to increase in the weeks ahead.”
In June, at the G7 in Cornwall, a new transatlantic travel taskforce was set up to explore ways to reopen UK-US travel.
The group is supposedly exploring options for resuming flights at scale on what was once the busiest and most lucrative intercontinental route network in the world.
Travel from the UK to the US has been frozen for non-residents since…
