JetBlue CEO expects transatlantic to reopen before Thanksgiving

JetBlue Airways CEO Robin Hayes expects the US to reopen to foreign travelers before the Nov. 25 Thanksgiving holiday, he said Tuesday at an IATA media briefing. Significant number of customers have already made bookings so tens of thousands would have to cancel if the US does not open by then, Hayes says. Overall demand is correlated to case counts and people who didn’t get a chance to travel last summer will begin booking, he says. In same briefing, IATA chief Willie Walsh says there’s sustained demand for travel, not just pent-up demand after restrictions are lifted. On what airlines have learned for next pandemic, Walsh says the industry was “probably too sympathetic” to governments<br/>He sees resistance to certain measures if there were to be another pandemic.<br/>