PARIS, April 14 (Reuters) - British Airways is well
placed to lead a European travel recovery from COVID-19 if
relatively swift vaccine rollouts in Britain and the United
States enable transatlantic routes to reopen, Chief Executive
Sean Doyle said on Wednesday.
"There's an immediate opportunity to open up the U.S.,"
Doyle said during CAPA Live, an online industry event.
With the two countries "more or less mirroring each other"
on vaccination, Doyle said, "that should lead to the UK and the
U.S. being able to lead the way in terms of opening up."
Transatlantic re-opening would play to the network strengths
of British Airways and parent group IAG, he added. "The breadth
and depth of the network we have provided there historically has
been a competitive advantage for us."
(Reporting by Laurence Frost; Editing by Hugh Lawson)