Flying prices from Europe to the US have fallen to their lowest since the pandemic, as more and more holidaymakers avoid the states in favor of alternative destinations.
The US National Travel and Tourism Office revealed a 2.8 percent drop in overseas arrivals to the US in May compared to the previous year.
And in March, the trip from Western Europe year-on-year fell 17%, according to the NTTO.
This decrease in transatlantic flights has been placing since earlier this year, when the US president Donald Trump announced a strict tariff policy.
And now, thanks to this decline in tourism, the price of US return flights to Europe is 10 percent lower compared to a year ago.
In fact, the average rates of $ 817/£ 609 per ticket are in line with prices from the summer of 2019 before the pandemic, according to Hopper Travel Booking App Hopper.
This downward trend is expected to continue, as the analysis firm OAG Aviation said advance bookings for July show a 13 percent year-on-year reduction in the incoming trip to the United States.
Large carriers, including Air France Klm and Lufthansa, based on Germany, also confirmed that they expected the slowdown of the activity.
Flight prices from Europe to the US have fallen to their lowest since the pandemic, as more and more holidaymakers avoid the states in favor of alternative destinations
This decrease in transatlantic flights has occurred since earlier this year, when US President Donald Trump announced a strict tariff policy
This comes after Sir Richard Branson told MailOnline Travel exclusively how Brits could benefit from going to the states now if they wanted a cheap holiday – because the dollar sank to the lowest level in three years
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said the company was expecting a weaker demand, while Air France KLM CEO Ben Smith said the company was seeing a ‘slight retreat’ in transatlantic traffic and lowering prices to maintain the cabins on its flights.
It comes after Sir Richard Branson said exclusively to MailOnline Travel How Britons can benefit from going to the states now if they want a cheap holiday – due to the dollar that sank to the lowest level in three years.
He said during the opening of the New Virgin Hotel in Shoreditch: ‘It now costs people 12 or 15 percent less than before Trump took over to go to America.
‘Many Americans are very frustrated over the dollar Inserting collapses in valueOf course, but it was a big advantage for people living in the UK, because it makes it cheaper to go to the United States on vacation.
“That means good hotel prices, and fuel prices are also less, so we can praise our flights competitively.”
