A new way to travel between New York and London

Australians may still be in an international Covid lockdown - thanks largely to the incompetence of of their politicians - but increasing numbers of Americans are flying across the Atlantic to London. 

American airline JetBlue’s inaugural transatlantic flight landed at Heathrow Airport this week. 

It was the airline's first nonstop service between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Heathrow Airport (LHR).

It was the first time JetBlue had served a destination outside cities in the Americas.

Fully vaccinated US travellers are now able to travel to the UK quarantine-free but the market i still far from back to normal. 

The US still bars non-essential travel from the UK except for American citizens returning home.

JetBlue, the sixth largest airline in the US, has announced it will be offsetting all CO2 emissions on its London flights.

The UK ambassador to the US, Dame Karen Pierce DCMG, congratulated the airline and wished the crew and customers a safe journey.

“As vaccinated Americans can now come to the UK without the need to quarantine,” she said, “this route will offer more Americans a path to doing business, holidays and family reunions in the UK. Today’s flight quite literally takes our ‘special relationship’ to new heights!”

John Holland-Kaye, chief executive officer of Heathrow Airport, said JetBlue’s service will be “game-changing for the transatlantic market.”

Crazed American terrorises fellow airline passengers

You can count on Americans for bizarre, often dangerous behaviour, but an airline passenger on board a JetBlue flight from New York to San Francisco this week set new standards of mania.

The man refused to wear a mask, threatened other passengers, groped a woman and was seen "snorting a white substance."

Mark Anthony Scerbo, of Mechanicville, New York, was arrested for drug possession in Minneapolis after JetBlue flight 915 from New York City to San Francisco made an unscheduled stop in Minnesota to kick him off the flight.

It was alleged Scerbo refused to wear a mask so he could snort cocaine.

A bag filled with a white substance was confiscated by cabin crew after the man was "acting erratically and aggressively" towards cabin crew and other passengers, the airline said in a statement.

"The flight was met by law enforcement, the customer was removed and the flight continued on to San Francisco," JetBlue added.

In a cell phone video recorded aboard the flight, an attendant could be heard telling passengers that a passenger allegedly touched another passenger, refused to wear a mask and made repeated trips to the bathroom.

He was also seen making stabbing gestures toward other passengers.

"It was decided that all four flight attendants felt uncomfortable with what was going on," he said. "This was the closest place to go, so we as a team made the decision to come here."

Passengers alleged the man also yelled racial slurs. It is believed that he is known to police.