Virgin Atlantic: COVID-19 Ongoing Travel Disruption 24 Sep

It remains a dynamic time for international travel and we’re continually reviewing our flying schedules in response to the ongoing impact of Covid-19 and any restrictions in the destinations we fly to. We hope to be back to a full flying programme as soon as we can.

We’re excited to confirm that President Biden’s administration has announced that the United States will reopen its borders for fully vaccinated international visitors from November 2021. This means that from early November (date to be confirmed) if you’re fully vaccinated with a vaccine recognised by the United States, you’ll be able to enter the US as a visitor, be it for a holiday, business or reuniting with loved ones. Further information can be found here

Because of ongoing travel restrictions and Red list designations, we are making further adjustments to our Havana, Trinidad & Tobago and Cape Town schedules, resulting in cancellations. We’re sorry for the inconvenience caused to our customers and look forward to returning to these destinations as soon as possible. The Red list should focus purely on Variants of Concern, in order to protect public health, therefore it’s imperative to rapidly and continuously remove countries that don’t pose a threat, in order to open travel back up to countries like South Africa.

We’ve taken the difficult decision to delay the start of our Manchester-Montego Bay services until mid-December, with travel to Jamaica restricted for holidaymakers due to current FCDO advice currently advising against non-essential travel. Following the confirmed opening of US borders for fully vaccinated international visitors from early November, we’ve also adjusted some of our US schedules.

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 25 September 2021. Our most up to date flexibility policy can be found here

We are also making some frequency updates on selected routes. We will continue to keep our website up to date with all the latest updates to schedule and travel restrictions.

During October we plan to maintain operations on the following routes, subject to late changes:

Our partners are also back in the skies, and here's a reminder of where they are flying long-haul from the UK in October.

Please check here regularly for updates and here for specific flight status.

Please ensure the latest traveller contact information is available within the booking so the latest instructions reach the traveller via SMS and email.

Date Change & Refund Policies
Everything you need to know to assist our customers with date changes and refunds can be found here.