June 5 - Virgin Atlantic has announced its plan to restart passenger flying, with services from London Heathrow to Orlando, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York JFK and Los Angeles set to resume from 20th and 21st July 2020.

 

As countries around the world start to relax travel restrictions, Virgin Atlantic will resume some routes on 20th July, while steadily increasing passenger flying throughout the second half of 2020, with a further, gradual recovery through 2021 in line with customer demand.

 

Virgin Atlantic planned return to flying from London Heathrow Terminal 2*. Flights will be loaded into systems over the next two weeks subject to change.

Restart date	Route
20th July 2020	London Heathrow – Orlando
20th July 2020	London Heathrow – Hong Kong
21st July 2020	London Heathrow – Shanghai
21st July 2020	London Heathrow – New York JFK
21st July 2020	London Heathrow – Los Angeles

 

**Virgin Atlantic operates temporarily from Terminal 2 at Heathrow, due to HAL’s terminal consolidation. Virgin Atlantic will return to its much loved home at London Heathrow Terminal 3 when demand at Heathrow grows, enabling Terminal 3 to reopen

 

Your Health & Wellbeing

To ensure the health and safety of the people and customers, Virgin Atlantic is implementing additional measures to offer peace of mind in the airport and when taking to the skies**.

 

These include:

• Enhanced and thorough cleaning practices at check in, boarding gates and onboard including the use of electrostatic spraying of high-grade disinfectant onboard in all their cabins and lavatories, ensuring no surface is left untouched
• Safe distancing will also be adhered to wherever possible, particularly at check-in and boarding and where not possible, masks will be required
• Virgin Atlantic will provide a personal Health Pack for the wellbeing and comfort of all their customers, which will contain medical grade face masks as a requirement to be worn onboard, surface wipes and hand gel
• In the short term, Virgin Atlantic will also be offering a simplified hot food service onboard to minimise contact, enclosed from preparation in a Covid-safe, monitored environment directly to your customers’ seats

 

Transporting Essential Cargo

In addition to the restart of passenger flying, Virgin Atlantic continues to operate cargo-only flights keeping global supply chains running and transporting essential supplies around the world. Throughout June, the airline plans to operate more than 600 cargo-only services, serving destinations including Tel Aviv, Chicago, Brussels, Johannesburg, Lagos and Miami.

The airline also looks forward to continuing to partner with the Department for Health and the NHS, working with them on 17 cargo charters per week from Shanghai and Beijing throughout June and July, bringing in the vital medical supplies that the teams here in the UK urgently need to care for patients. To date the airline has carried over 44 million items of PPE from China to the UK.

 

 

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