Airlines for America and Iata said vaccinated travellers now pose no additional Covid risk to US citizens, stressing that the widespread presence of Covid-19 across the US – coupled with high levels of immunity and vaccination, and access to new treatments – meant it was safe to remove testing for fully vaccinated arrivals.
The coalition has urged the US government to follow the lead set by the EU and, in particular the UK, of which it said: "The UK concluded that the cost to both passengers and airlines of the testing mandate could no longer be justified as there was no evidence the regime protected the population from Covid-19."
