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BA and Virgin Atlantic put aside rivalry for return of leisure flights to US
BA flight BA001 – a number previously reserved for Concorde – and Virgin flight VS3 will take off from London Heathrow
on parallel runways for New York’s JFK airport at 8.30am, more than 600 days since the US travel ban was introduced.
The two jets will then fly in tandem to JFK. “Over the last 18 months, I’ve done things with people I thought I’d never do.
Cooperation in a crisis like Covid is vital,” says BA’s chief executive.
But then he pauses and adds that the moment the two jets land in JFK “it will be back to competition, taking each other on as usual. It will be intense.”
BA and Virgin Atlantic put aside rivalry for return of leisure flights to US | Airline industry | The Guardian
Press Release: British Airways | COMING TO AMERICA: BRITISH AIRWAYS AND VIRGIN ATLANTIC CELEBRATE US REOPENING WITH HISTORIC FIRST EVER DUAL TAKE-OFF FROM LONDON TO NEW YORK