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Hopes that the great British getaway would be possible this summer grew on Wednesday, with easyJet predicting that most of Europe would be open for travel and British Airways confident on routes to the U.S., despite ongoing uncertainty.
Europe’s travel industry, battered by the pandemic, is counting on British holidaymakers to lead a tourism rebound this summer. After one of the world’s fastest vaccination programmes, Britons could be permitted to travel from late May.
But over the last month, a third wave of coronavirus infections in continental Europe has cast doubts on the bumper return of travel.
Hopes that the great British getaway would be possible this summer grew on Wednesday, with easyJet predicting that most of Europe would be open for travel and British Airways confident on routes to the U.S., despite ongoing uncertainty.
ZeroAvia’s hydrogen fuel cell plane ambitions clouded by technical challenges
Aspirations remain sky high
When ZeroAvia’s six-seater aircraft completed an eight-minute flight from Cranfield Airfield in the U.K. last September, the company claimed a “major breakthrough” with the first-ever hydrogen fuel cell flight of a commercial-size aircraft.
The modified Piper Malibu propeller plane was now the largest hydrogen-powered aircraft in the world, wrote the company. “While some experimental aircraft have flown using hydrogen fuel cells, the size of this aircraft shows that paying passengers could be boarding a truly zero-emission flight very soon,” added Val Miftakhov, ZeroAvia’s CEO.
TOO EARLY TO SAY WHICH COUNTRIES OPEN FOR BRITISH TRAVELLERS SAYS MINISTER
It is too early to say which countries will be on Britain’s green list for travel, UK aviation minister Robert Courts said on Wednesday, after easyJet’s chief executive forecast that most European countries would be on the list.
“It wouldn’t be right for me to speculate as to which countries in which areas of the world are likely to be on which list. We will have to look at the right time, it’s too early to say at the moment,” Courts told a parliamentary committee.