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Moves to restart travel between the United States and the United Kingdom have been dismissed by the industry.

 As part of a "Atlantic Charter" scheduled to be signed on Thursday, a new committee will be established to offer recommendations on relaxing limitations.

The prime minister and the president would "seek to relaunch UK-US travel as soon as feasible," according to a statement from Number 10.

The announcement, however, "falls short," according to Virgin Atlantic's CEO.

"The launch of the Atlantic Taskforce is a good recognition of the importance of the UK-US travel corridor and a first step toward reopening the skies," said CEO Shai Weiss.

However, he claimed that the lack of a defined timeline for resuming travel left airlines, businesses, and customers in the dark.

Mr. Weiss encouraged Mr. Biden and Mr. Johnson to enable trans-Atlantic travel by July 4th, ahead of the opening of the G7 summit in Cornwall.



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