{"id":1258,"date":"2020-07-22T19:43:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2020-07-22T19:45:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:45:31","slug":"airlines-call-to-restore-transatlantic-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Airlines Call To Restore Transatlantic Air Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Major airlines are urging the U.S. and the European Union to quickly restore transatlantic air travel. It has been suggested that a joint COVID-19 testing program should be formulated which would allow passengers to easily enter countries which until this point have barred them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CEOs of United, American Airlines, IAG and Lufthansa Group wrote a letter on Tuesday to to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and to Ylva Johansson, the European commissioner for home affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> \u201cGiven the unquestioned importance of transatlantic air travel to the global economy as well as to the economic recovery of our businesses, we believe it is critical to find a way to reopen air services between the U.S. and Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The letter was addressed \u201cwith urgency\u201d and marketed the idea as &#8220;an excellent opportunity for government and industry to work together\u201d and \u201csafely restore passenger travel between the U.S. and Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The signers were Scott Kirby for United, Carsten Spohr for Lufthansa, Doug Parker for American, and Willie Walsh at IAG, which owns British Airways and Iberia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major airlines are urging the U.S. and the European Union to quickly restore transatlantic air travel. It has been suggested that a joint COVID-19 testing program should be formulated which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosherosher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}