Travelport’s research is released as the US reopens its borders to fully vaccinated travellers from the UK and a host of other countries. 

“Following President Biden’s first US travel announcement on 20 September that fully vaccinated travellers from the UK and the EU would be allowed to enter the US starting in November, it was travellers from the UK who were most keen to visit,” Travelport said. 

“In the 24 hours that followed, US-bound flights originating from the UK were searched more than US-bound flights from all other European countries combined.

"UK travellers searched more than 1.4 million flights from London to New York, making it the most popular US route searched.”

Flight bookings then followed a similar trend, with the UK booking more US-bound flights than Germany, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland and Denmark combined, Travelport added.

Among UK consumers, Orlando, New York, Miami, Las Vegas and Los Angeles were most popular destinations, with August 2022 the most popular month for travel to Florida.

The technology firm also said the UK had recovered 68% of all its outbound international bookings, “with numbers rapidly increasing and currently the highest they have been since the pandemic began”.