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USA entry stop: This is how the airlines deal with it

Due to the spread of the corona virus, tourists from Europe are not allowed to enter the USA for 30 days. This measure came suddenly for the airlines. You can read here how they deal with it.

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Brigitte Vetter


Events are currently overturning in the travel industry. The reason: the spread of the coronavirus worldwide. More and more countries are introducing increased security measures or even imposing entry stops. There is already a large list of countries that German tourists are not allowed to enter.

The preliminary high point is the 30-day entry ban for travelers from Europe to the United States, which US President Donald Trump announced on March 12 and which comes into force on the night of March 14. In addition to the travelers, this also shook the airlines.

Lufthansa continues to offer flights to the United States

The Lufthansa Group then massively canceled its flight schedule, but announced that there would still be flights to the United States from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium.

So planes continue to take off from

  • Frankfurt to Chicago and New York-Newark
  • Zurich to Chicago and New York-Newark
  • Vienna to Chicago
  • and from Brussels to Washington

These connections are also to be retained in the flight schedule beyond March 14th, thus maintaining at least some air connections to the USA from Europe. The US hubs flown to should enable travelers to make a connecting flight with the partner airline United Airlines. All other US flights were suspended until further notice, including departures from Munich, Düsseldorf and Geneva.

The continuation of the flights makes an exception possible in the Donald Trump decree. According to the “aerotelegraph“Are excluded from the regulation in Section 2, Section VII Crews. Lufthansa has so far made no statements about the frequency of the flights, a special flight plan is in the works, it is said. The flight destinations in Canada are unchanged.

American Airlines reduced 50 percent of transatlantic flights

The airline American Airlines also announced that it would continue to serve the routes to Europe for up to seven days: “To ensure that customers and employees can return home under the new US restrictions.”

American Airlines will then cut flights on transatlantic routes by 50 percent in April. Most of the cuts are expected to start next week and, depending on the route, will last until May or June, according to the “The Points Guy“.

For Germany the flights will be suspended:

  • from the American city of Charlotte in North Carolina to Frankfurt from March 13 to May 6
  • from Charlotte to Munich from March 13th to May 6th

This also affects flights to Madrid, Paris, Barcelona and in many other European countries.

United Airlines flight schedule continues until March 19

The airline United Airlines says according to “The Points Guy“Their regular flight schedule continues until March 19 and then begins reducing flights to Europe.

After March 19, the airline plans to:

  • Fly daily to Zurich, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Manchester and Edinburgh
  • maintain several flights to Frankfurt and Munich
  • and offer 18 daily flights to and from London and three to Dublin

Delta Airlines only flies to Germany five times a week

Delta Airlines was the first major U.S. airline to announce changes to its European flight schedule. As of March 14, it will temporarily suspend the following transatlantic routes:

  • from Cincinnati Indianapolis, Salt Lake City and Raleigh / Durham to Paris
  • from Orlando, Salt Lake City and Portland to Amsterdam

Many more flights will be reduced. The daily service between Atlanta and Munich will be reduced from March 18 to March 20 to five times a week. The same applies to the Atlanta and Düsseldorf route from March 23 to May 20. The flights to Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece and Italy were also reduced. There is more information on the Delta-Website.

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