Tourism Breaking News
Virgin Atlantic has announced its plan to restart passenger flying to 17 additional destinations from August 2020. According to a statement released by the airline, flights from Delhi and Mumbai to London Heathrow start on the 2nd Sept 2020 and will provide connections to a range of US destinations. After the airline’s announcement that services from London Heathrow to Hong Kong, New York JFK, and Los Angeles are expected to resume from 20th and 21st July 2020, Virgin Atlantic has unveiled more detailed plans that will see passenger flying restart to many destinations across the airline’s network. Juha Jarvinen, Chief Commercial Officer, Virgin Atlantic commented: “As countries around the world begin to relax travel restrictions, we look forward to welcoming our customers back onboard and flying them safely to many destinations across our network. From 20th July we will resume services to New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong then from 1st August onwards, we will resume passenger flying to 17 additional destinations around the world including Delhi, Mumbai and Tel Aviv.”
“However, we are monitoring external conditions extremely closely, in particular the travel restrictions many countries have in place including the 14 day quarantine policy for travellers entering the UK. We know that as the Covid-19 crisis subsides, air travel will be a vital enabler of the UK’s economic recovery. Therefore, we are calling for UK Government to continually review its quarantine measures and instead look at a multi-layered approach of carefully targeted public health and screening measures, including air bridges, which will support a successful and safe restart of international air travel for passengers and businesses.”
Virgin Atlantic planned return to flying from London Heathrow Terminal 2* (subject to change and dependent on travel restrictions)
Planned restart date Routes
21st July 2020 Hong Kong, New York JFK, Los Angeles – London Heathrow
1st August 2020 Barbados – London Heathrow
4th August 2020 San Francisco – London Heathrow
5th August 2020 Shanghai – London Heathrow
10th August 2020 Tel Aviv – London Heathrow
18th August 2020 Miami – London Heathrow
24th August 2020 Lagos – London Heathrow
25th August 2020 Atlanta – London Heathrow
1st September 2020 Boston, Washington, Seattle, Las Vegas – London Heathrow
2nd September 2020 Mumbai, Delhi – London Heathrow
15th September 2020 Johannesburg – London Heathrow
1st October 2020 Antigua – London Heathrow
2nd October 2020 Montego Bay, Grenada (via Antigua) – London Heathrow
4th October 2020 Tobago (via Antigua) – London Heathrow
Virgin Atlantic will operate temporarily from Terminal 2 at Heathrow, due to HAL’s terminal consolidation. Virgin Atlantic will return to its much-loved home at London Heathrow Terminal 3 when demand at Heathrow grows, enabling Terminal 3 to reopen
Virgin Atlantic has taken the difficult decision to cancel some services for the remainder of the summer 2020 season and seasonal services from Glasgow and Belfast to Orlando will now resume for selected dates in summer 2021. We will continue to monitor our network on an ongoing basis and expect further flights from London Heathrow and Manchester to resume in September and October 2020.
