Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has announced that it will restore 40% of its flights from July 1st. The decision is subject to the abolition of restrictive measures on flights within the EU imposed by governments to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Currently over 99% of the company's planes remain on the ground.
Mandatory use of the mask on board for passengers and access only on individual request to the aircraft toilets. These are two of the key anti-coronavirus security measures planned by Ryanair in view of the resumption of 40% of its flights announced today.
To avoid the queues at the toilets, passengers must be allowed one by one by the flight attendants to get up, explained Michael O'Leary, patron of the Irish giant of low-cost aero transport, interviewed on ITV this morning.
O'Leary, whose company has a main hub at London Stansted airport, then criticized the future mandatory quarantine announced by Boris Johnson's government (as well as by other governments) for those arriving with or without symptoms in the UK from abroad once the internal rate of infection is severely reduced. A measure that he called "idiot", even if "manageable", saying he was skeptical that it could be respected and equally skeptical that it was effective considering the exemptions already promised to travel from Ireland or France.
