Talks have begun regarding a possible air bridge between London and New York. This would mean travelers between these two cities would not need to quarantine.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/air-bridge-london-new-york-coronavirus-quarantine-a4534201.html
Now before people start yelling "it's the Standard" there were similar reports in the Telegraph, Times, Reuters, other UK newspaper, and some U.S. media.
If it does occur it would be later in the year.
Thats very encouraging.
This would be so awesome!
The U.K. has had air bridges with several countries including France and Spain and these have been closed down with around 24 hours notice as infections there have risen. Flying us a risky business at present.
The devil must be in the details. The article says:
. . . air bridges which would allow travellers to come to the UK from "low-risk" areas such as New York within countries like the United States, . . .
That reads to me as you must be a resident of NYC (or possibly NY state), not just passing through the NYC airports. It wouldn't make sense otherwise, as there's nothing magically disinfecting people at JFK.
Nothing secret about their criteria: lower your infection rates and your people will be let in.
New York has a 14 day quarantine for visitors from most other states. You might have to prove 14 day quarantine if you are from one of those states before boarding.
In one article I read they are hoping to get business people traveling between the two countries. Not all business folk live in NY.
This is still early. If it happens I'm sure it will all be spelled out.
I recall that I posted a couple months ago that some states meet low risk entry requirements, and everyone posted back that European countries would never parse the USA into smaller subsets of states with high and low risk.
“The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.” --Abe Lincoln
On a serious note, one huge hole in this idea was brought up in the thread Tom mentions--the US has no interior border controls. What would be keeping a New York City resident from driving up after spending some time in, say, Florida, and hopping on a plane to London the next day? Until they get that figured out--or unless Great Britain is willing to turn a blind eye to such things--I don't see how this goes beyond the "talking" phase.
It might be simpler and faster to invent a vaccine, than work out the logistics of how the person boarding the UK bound plane came to be in NY and is 'safe' to travel.
As I stated earlier, but I guess few people read responses, NY has a quarantine on people coming from certain states. And they have checkpoints on many roads.
As I stated earlier, but I guess few people read responses, NY has a quarantine on people coming from certain states. And they have checkpoints on many roads.
That's good but, serious question, how do they know if a citizen of New York City, who says they're just coming back from New Jersey, wasn't actually in Florida? It seems the quarantine and checkpoints only apply to the citizens of certain other states.
