German Airlines Pitch Plan to Return Trans-Atlantic Flights
- Limited corridors would involve large European, U.S. airports
- Travelers would be tested for Covid-19, BDL tells reporters
Travelers pass through Frankfurt Airport.
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Germany’s main aviation industry group has proposed the creation of limited air-travel corridors between major U.S. and European hubs, a bid to crack open the nearly dormant market for trans-Atlantic flight.
The pilot projects would link U.S. airports in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and New York City-adjacent Newark, N.J., with Frankfurt and Munich in Germany, along with other major European intercontinental hubs, executives at BDL, which represents Germany’s airports and airlines, said in an online press event Wednesday.