Ryanair to axe 1,000 UK - Ireland flights in August, September
By Frank Prenesti
Date: Tuesday 14 Jul 2020
(Sharecast News) - Ryanair said it was cutting up to 1,000 flights from its UK-Ireland routes in August and September as it accused the Irish government of keeping a "a defective quarantine restriction on EU visitors".
The budget carrier said the move would cost it 200,000 passengers and warned Ireland's economy could be facing "unrecoverable losses". It added that there would be 100,000 fewer visitors to airports in Cork, Shannon, Knock and Kerry due to the cuts.
It said Ireland had maintained a 14-day quarantine on all arrivals from EU countries, "most of which have lower Covid case rates" than the republic, despite the UK and Northern Ireland lifting restrictions.
"It makes no sense...that the Irish Govt continues to treat countries like Germany, Denmark and Greece as if they were suffering similar levels of Covid as the USA, Brazil and India," Ryanair said in a statement.
"We call on the Irish Govt to remove all travel restrictions between Ireland and the EU as a matter of urgency, so that Ireland's hotels, guest houses, restaurants and other tourism providers can recover their business and minimise job losses before we reach the downturn winter period."
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