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Biden urged to create US-UK ‘public health corridor’

Destinations
Rob Gill
14 May 2021

US president Joe Biden has been urged to open a “public health corridor” with the UK as the first step towards reopening international travel in a letter signed by 23 global travel firms.

US travel leaders met with Biden administration officials at the White House on Tuesday (Image credit: ALAMY)

The letter, signed by the US Travel Association as well as major US airlines and global hotel groups, calls for the establishing of a US-UK travel corridor due to the two countries’ “similar pace of vaccinations and declining infection rates”.

“We respectfully urge you to engage with prime minister Boris Johnson to secure a commitment to quickly establish a travel corridor between the US and the UK. The federal government should then expand similar PHCs (public health corridors) to other low-risk countries,” said the letter.