The boss of troubled airline Virgin Atlantic is pushing for the USA to be on Boris Johnson's 'green list', after warning the pandemic has cost the airline £858million.
Virgin CEO Shai Wess said there is "no reason to delay" the return of trans-Atlantic travel as he called for flights to resume with minimal restrictions on May 17.
Virgin, which has made several pleas for government bailouts since the start of the Covid emergency, has recently completed a rescue deal with investors – which involved hundreds of job cuts.
Sir Richard Branson, who owns 51% of the airline, even offered to remortgage Necker – his private island - to prevent its collapse after passenger numbers tumbled by over a million.
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