IATA’s Walsh Pointedly Mocks Biden, Johnson And Their Failure To Reopen The U.S.-U.K. Travel Market

IATA’s Walsh Pointedly Mocks Biden, Johnson And Their Failure To Reopen The U.S.-U.K. Travel Market

Share to Linkedin U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in August 1941, ... [+] four months before the U. S. even entered World War II, to lay out the policies for reestablishing global peace and cooperation that they would insist upon after the defeat of the Axis powers. The pair met aboard the British Navy battleship Prince of Wales in the North Atlantic. Getty Images What's a poor group of U. S. and British airline CEOs to do when President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson announce with great fanfare the creation of a "New Atlantic Charter" that they say eventually re-opening air travel between their two nations but which actually gives the carriers nothing at all like why they were noisily demanding from the two leaders a week ago. Well, in this case they presumably called in the heaviest hitter in the entire global airline business to tell, in his famously blunt way, Johnson and Biden where they can put their showy but otherwise empty "Charter." Friday International Air Transport Association CEO Willie Walsh, the retired CEO of British Airways and creator of International Air Group, the multi-national holding company that controls