we are looking at ryanair and easyjet. ryanair is headquartered within the european union.et is in the united kingdom. ryanair able to benefit from open borders within the european union. easyjet suffering from the higher costs due to pcr tests for travelers. tom: how is it playing out in terms of which countries are recovering most quickly? >> greece is a clear standout. you see from the chart, the capacity since 2019. greece now at higher levels, at a quarter of a percent, higher than it was for the same period in 2019. a phenomenal achievement, especially because tourism accounts for 20% of their gdp. one notable laggard is the u.k., -54% for this week compared to 2019. it is because the united kingdom cannot compete with the european union on a travel basis, as they are not in the open border framework because of the digital covid-19 travel pass. tom: laura wright breaking down what is happening across europe as economies and the travel industry adjust to changes in the pandemic read in the u.k., a labor shortage in key industries from haulage to food process is disrupt

ryanair is a good one.ints that some of these european short-haul travel companies have been benefiting from the green pass. i know they have more roots than something like iag, british airways. people have been traveling over the summer months to them from the european capitals. alix: none of those things for me but maybe for you. let's get more on bloomberg travel guidelines. bloomberg transit reporter sid phillips joins us. we could see europe rejigger whether u.s. individuals can go to europe, similar for the u.k.. what are you expecting? sid: we are hearing the european union is considering whether or not to reimpose travel restrictions on american travelers from america. as things stand at the moment, people from the u.s. can enter europe if they are fully vaccinated. those rules may change going forward. francine: if you look at airlines, are european airlines on a tear? when will they be revoked if they get revoked? what are executives telling you? sid: at the moment it is complicated. short-haul tr

the u.s., which we require such as ryanair, they are the leaders in europe.ss often, that repeat business is a challenge, as is a mixed in travel. -- mix in travel. how much business travel actually comes back for the future? companies are reining in their budgets and not traveling, and by doing zoom and teams and so on conferences. alix: it seems like the popular guys, the budget airlines or short-haul travel, is that positivity baked in already? john: i think it is. they are going out ambitiously, expanding ryanair and wizz air are increasing their fleets. wizz has added more than any other airline. maybe they have trimmed capacity and taken aircraft out of certain airports and put them somewhere else where they've made diversity is strength by doing a lot of tests that would not have been done pre-covid. they are exposing themselves to more markets and traffic flows, so they increase the chance of more work in the long term. i touched on some small carriers. in europe, our number of small european carriers that have survived, air italia -- alitalia will ch

look at what some airlines have reported recently, ryanairand airlines have reported recently, ryanairnger volumes relative tojune 2019, the equivalent pre—pandemic order so i think tui could look at a similar ballpark in terms of the actual results but what is much more interesting is the day—to—day report and the very latest booking trends. that will give us a real sense of how consumers across europe have reacted to restrictions being relaxed over the last few months. ~ ., being relaxed over the last few months. . ., ., , ., ~' months. what do you think we will see from _ months. what do you think we will see from that _ months. what do you think we will see from that given - months. what do you think we will see from that given that i will see from that given that restrictions in many countries only relaxed really in the past few weeks?— few weeks? yes, what we are seeinu few weeks? yes, what we are seeing across _ few weeks? yes, what we are seeing across our— few weeks? yes, what we are seeing across our travel- seeing across our travel company clients is what you call a two spee

you remember, too, the forced downing of a ryanair jet a few months ago just to arrest an opposition worth the embarrassment on the international stage. there's another argument that says to some degree russia simply cannot belarus fall in a westerly direction towards the european union. remarkable scenes we've seen out of tokyo as the repression in his country continues. >> nick paton walsh, thank you. you can follow me on twitter @pamelabrowncnn. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in "the situation room." ♪ >>> happening now, the u.s. finally hits president biden's vaccine milestone one month late. the white house calling it a significant step as the delta variant spreads like wildfire among the unvaccinated. we go live to florida, the epicenter of this new covid crisis as cases soar in the battle over mask and mandates fencifies. >>> a third police officer who confronted the rioters during the january 6th capitol insurrection has died by

opposition belarusianjournalist — roman protasevich — and his girlfriend, were arrested after their ryanairr from belarus refused orders to fly home early from the tokyo olympics after criticising her coaches. krystina timanovskaya has now been granted a humanitarian visa by poland and today gave an exclusive interview to the bbc. here she is on the decision to send her home. translation: i was very surprised, i didn't under stand because i didn't say anything political. ijust said that my trainers decision behind my back. i was very surprised. i was very surprised. you heard miss timanovskaya there explaing that her argument was not political. in fact her original complaint was about being entered into a relay race at short notice. but many fear she would have been punished anyway. on that, here's the polish deputy foreign minister. the head of the belarusian olympic commitee is the son of mr lukashenko, so criticising the coaches she also criticised the belarusian political systme. but for us this wasn't that important. she was forced to leave tokyo and against her will she was forced to

we saw that when the ryanair flight was. to the ground just for the arrest of raymond.lly safe from this regime. i think you are alluding to the death of vital in ukraine. it does seem suspicious. ukrainian authorities must conduct a transparent and effective investigation into what led to his death. we investigation into what led to his death. ~ ., ., ., ., death. we have got to leave it there. i apologise _ death. we have got to leave it there. i apologise for- death. we have got to leave it there. i apologise for the - death. we have got to leave it there. i apologise for the lack| death. we have got to leave it l there. i apologise for the lack of time. thank you for sharing your thoughts on what is happening regarding belarus and the outlook for the athletes, etc. more from the olympics later in the programme. now on the story in the united states. president biden has said the democratic governor of the state of new york, andrew cuomo, should resign. it's after an investigation found he had sexually harassed women while in office. the five—month inquiry described a