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19 August 2021
News
Virgin Atlantic
It continues to be a dynamic time for international travel with ongoing travel restrictions to and from many of the countries we operate to.
As a result of ongoing travel restrictions from the UK to the US, we have pushed back the restart of some transatlantic flights, including our Orlando services from London Heathrow and Manchester and Las Vegas services from Heathrow.
We’re sorry for the inconvenience caused to our customers and look forward to returning to these destinations as soon as possible. World-leading vaccination programmes in both countries means the transatlantic corridor can safely open in both directions and we continue to urge the UK Government to go further and move the US to the UK’s ‘Green list’ and for the Biden administration to repeal the 212F proclamation, which currently prevents UK visitors from entering the US.
As a result of the fast-moving travel environment, we continue to make schedule changes which will affect our Flying Programme for the coming weeks.
We are reducing frequencies on several routes, however to ensure impacted passengers can continue with their travel plans, they will be reprotected to the most suitable alternative departure.
Where a flight is cancelled, and due to limited operations to these destinations, there will be no reprotection option available, these sectors will appear as UN.
Bookings affected by these changes will be updated in your GDS on Saturday 21 August 2021. Our most up to date flexibility policy can be found here
Cancellations Effective until & including
USA
LHR-MCO
22 Sep
MAN-MCO
22 Sep
LHR-LAS
7 Sep
LHR-SFO
9 Sep
MAN-ATL
7 Sep
MAN-JFK
8 Sep
We are also making some frequency updates for August on selected routes. We will provide schedules for September as soon as details become available and will continue to keep our website up to date with all the latest updates to schedule and travel restrictions.
During August we plan to maintain operations on the following routes, subject to late changes:
Our flying programme
USA
LHR-ATL-LHR
12-22 Aug, 4 per week 23-31 Aug, 5 per week
LHR-BOS-LHR
3 per week
LHR-JFK-LHR
14 per week
LHR-LAX-LHR
3 per week
LHR-MIA-LHR
3 per week
Caribbean
LHR-BGI-LHR
7 per week
LHR-MBJ-LHR
3 per week
LHR-ANU-LHR
3 per week
LHR-GND-LHR (via BGI)
2 per week
MAN-BGI-MAN
3 per week
South Africa
LHR-JNB-LHR
3 per week
India
LHR-BOM-LHR
3 per week
LHR-DEL-LHR
2 per week
Pakistan
LHR-LHE-LHR
2 per week
LHR-ISB-LHR
3 per week
Hong Kong
LHR-HKG
2 per week from 28 Aug
HKG-LHR
7 per week
Nigeria
LHR-LOS-LHR
7 per week
Israel
LHR-TLV-LHR
5 per week
Our partners are also back in the skies, and here's a reminder of where they are flying long-haul from the UK.
