Transatlantic airfares have dropped to rates last seen before the pandemic, data shows, the latest sign that fewer Europeans are traveling to the U.S. due to concerns about U.S. border controls and Donald Trump’s policies.
The trend could extend into and beyond the summer holiday period, typically the busiest time for airlines and travel companies.
Overseas arrivals to the United States fell 2.8% in May from a year ago, according to preliminary data from the U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office within the U.S. Department of Commerce. Travel from Western Europe fell 4.4% in May, led by a decline in travelers from Denmark and Germany.
need to pump up those percentages.
Most people book this kind of holiday a year in advance. The people still coming to the US booked their holidays last year. There’s going to be an enormous impact by next year.
I love the US, spent a lot of time there, worked there for years, I have family there. I’m not going back until Trump is gone and there is some kind normality returned - which might be a long time.
Trump is a symptom, this isn’t getting “better”, the shit just gets normalized, then gets worse.
I lived there pre 9/11 for a time, never going back and that’s as a cis straight white Gen X dude from Australia.
Trump is just the pustule on a very deep zit. It won’t be over without some serious reform.
Bruh. It’s likely to be never. We aren’t recovering from this.
But the countries that come after what used to be the USA might be nice.
Yeah the Indepedent Republic of California would be a nice place to visit after they deport all of the the ICE goons.
The Acadian Union (or whatever New England and the tri-state area become) should be pretty cool too.
I live in Canada. I used to visit the States probably every other year. Then Trump was elected in 2016, and I stopped going. Then covid happened, so I figured I’d wait a bit longer. And now it’ll be another 3 years until I even consider it, but that largely depends on what happens in that time span. It’s not out of the question to just never visit again. There are plenty of other places in the world that I haven’t seen yet.