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Airfares From Europe to the U.S. Are Tanking Under Trump

European tourists are increasingly turning their back on the U.S.

The prices of flights between the U.S. and Europe have dropped to their lowest level since before the COVID-19 pandemic as travelers choose to steer clear of Donald Trump’s America. Overseas arrivals to the U.S. in May have dropped 2.8 percent since last year, while in March the cost of flight from Western Europe was down by 17 percent on the previous year. Round-trip tickets to major American cities are down by an average of 10 percent this summer, according to travel booking app Hopper, with fares in line with the average prices to Europe in summer 2019, before the pandemic. “Fewer seats filled by European travelers to the U.S., and a slower pace of growth in U.S. outbound to Europe than last year, will tend to cast 2025 as a tougher year to make money on transatlantic routes,” Aran Ryan, director of industry studies at Tourism Economics, told Reuters. On the flip side, there are 4.3 percent more international flights scheduled from U.S. airports this summer, Hopper reports, while passenger numbers into the country from Eastern Europe have also risen.