It's not just the Canadians who are showing a reluctance to travel to the US.
Virgin Atlantic Airways has signalled that demand for flights from the UK to Crazyland has been slowing.
The airline this week reported its first annual profit since the pandemic, but also some caution regarding weakening demand, news portal Travel Mole reported.
CFO Oli Byers said: “We think that is quite a natural reaction to general consumer uncertainty.”
The news comes as trans border travel demand from Canada to the US has seen a huge drop of more than 70% for this summer.
That is specifically down to the trade war and like-for-like tariffs, which could soon impact transatlantic traffic due to political and economic factors, and, perhaps, fear of US entry security goons.
Mainland Europe’s top airlines have cited concerns, but that has yet to translate into a fall in bookings.
“It is concerning for us but as of today, we don’t see any material change in forward bookings,” Air France-KLM’s CEO Ben Smith said.
Virgin Atlantic is highly reliant on US-UK transatlantic bookings.
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