ENAC: "Ryanair violates anti-Covid rules. Either remedy or stop"

  The National Civil Aviation Authority wrote in recent days to Ryanair, informing the Irish Authority counterpart at the same time, "on the repeated violations of the anti-Covid-19 health regulations in force, ordered by the Italian Government to protect health of passengers ". ENAC specifies that if the airline does not remedy it, it will impose "the suspension of all air transport activities on national airports, asking the carrier to simultaneously provide for the re-protection of all passengers already in possession of a travel document".

ENAC explains that the Airport Departments have found that Ryanair "systematically does not comply with the provisions envisaged in Italy to limit the health risk deriving from the coronavirus on board aircraft departing and arriving at national airports.

    Not only is the requirement for distancing between passengers not observed, but the conditions for derogating from this distancing are also disregarded.

    ENAC has therefore informed the carrier that, in the interest of public health, should Ryanair persist in violations of the rules and incorrect and disrespectful behaviors of the health measures in force in Italy, the Authority will dispose against the company. airline a measure of exclusion of the possibility of derogating from the obligation of distancing, with the consequence that the filling of the aircraft would be allowed only up to 50% of the capacity.

    If, furthermore, further non-compliance with the obligations established by national regulations is ascertained, ENAC will be forced to apply the provisions of the Navigation Code (art. 802 - departure ban) and to impose the suspension of any air transport activity in the national airports, asking the carrier to provide, at the same time, to re-protect all passengers already in possession of a travel document.
    Please note that the measures that provide for airplanes, among other things, both the obligation of the mask and the spacing (which can be waived if the carrier observes all the conditions provided for in the technical annexes of the Dpcm in force), are provisions of a sanitary and non-aeronautical nature, which must be enforced by the operators themselves on board the aircraft.