President Biden, 78, signed a proclamation last month to restart foreign flights into the US. Mr Biden’s proclamation says: “It is in the interests of the United States to move away from the country-by-country restrictions previously applied during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“And to adopt an air travel policy that relies primarily on vaccination to advance the safe resumption of international air travel to the United States.”
To be eligible to board a US-bound flight, travellers will need to have their vaccines approved at least two weeks prior to the flight.
The news will be warmly welcomed by transatlantic passengers, which includes those boarding the 2,688 flights scheduled between the UK and the US throughout November.
Children under 18 will be exempt but they will have to show evidence of a negative Covid test three days before travelling.
The FCDO states: “Fully vaccinated air passengers arriving to the US from a foreign country must get a COVID-19 test no more than three days before their flight departs.”
Passengers must be able to show evidence of a negative coronavirus test if requested by authorities.
According to the CDC: “At this time all air passengers, two years or older, travelling to the US, regardless of vaccination or antibody status, are required to provide a negative COVID-19 viral test result or documentation of recovery unless exempted.”
The US travel ban currently includes international flights from the UK, Europe, China and India.
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On Monday British Airways and Virgin Atlantic will operate a synchronised departure from Heathrow to celebrate the end of the travel ban.
Their aircraft are set to take off from runaways parallel to each other at the west London airport at 8:30am before they flying to New York JFK.