At Lufthansa, the mask requirement also applies to passengers. Now she also wants to introduce Europe’s largest low-cost airline Ryanair. To prevent the transmission of the corona virus, passengers should wear face masks at the airport and on board. They should also provide the Irish airline with their contact details and the length of their stay at the check-in for flights in July and August. Ryanair also calls for the passengers to be checked for their body temperature as soon as they enter the airport.
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Ryanair plans to significantly increase its flight operations again on July 1. From this date onwards, 40 percent of regular flights will take place again, the company said. The prerequisite is that governments relax travel restrictions on flights within the EU and that safety measures are introduced at the airports to protect health. According to their own statements, Ryanair would then offer almost a thousand flights daily, covering 90 percent of the routes that the airline had operated before the corona crisis.
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Ryanair has ceased most of its flight operations since the end of March and currently only offers around 30 daily flights between Ireland, Great Britain and continental Europe.
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O’Leary on quarantine in the UK: “idiotic measure”
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary sharply criticized the British government’s planned 14-day quarantine for air travelers to the UK. It was an “idiotic measure,” said O’Leary. “This is nonsense and it has no effect on limiting the spread of Covid-19,” O’Leary told ITV.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson had in the past few days presented government plans to further fight the pandemic. The main concern was to relax the strict contact restrictions that had previously applied. The two-week quarantine for air travelers should not apply to passengers from Ireland and France. It is still unclear when the measure will be introduced.
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The Association of British Airlines Airlines UK had previously warned of quarantine measures. This would “effectively kill international travel to the UK and cause immense damage to the airline industry and the rest of the UK economy,” the association said.
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