Ryanair welcomes EU guideline for safe flying

By TIN Media | Airlines Published 3 years ago on 27 May 2020
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To ensure that the citizens of Europe can travel back to the European Union in the next week in a way that best safeguards their safety and the safety of airline crews, Ryanair welcomed new EU directives. These effective guidelines now allow Europe’s tourism industry to restart in July & August.

In particular, Ryanair welcomes the guidance on face masks, which represents the safety guidelines of Ryanair as it is again flying widely on 1 July. Ryanair again calls on the Irish and United Kingdom governments to discontinue their unimplementable 14-day quarantine measures which have been disappearing in most other European countries now, in favor of face masks and social distancing, 

Ryanair’s Group CEO Michael O’Leary said: “14-day quarantines are ineffective and unimplementable. Requiring international arrivals to quarantine only after they have used multiple public transport providers to get from the airport to their ultimate destination has no basis in science or medicine.

 We strongly urge Europe’s Governments, especially those in Ireland and the UK, to mandate to the wearing of face masks for airline, train and (London) underground passengers, as this is the best and most effective way to limit the spread of Covid-19 in public transport environments where social distancing is not possible.

We welcome the European Union’s recommendation on face masks and call again on the Irish and UK Government to abandon their unexplainable, ineffective, and unimplementable quarantine restrictions. Europe’s citizens can travel safely on their summer holidays wearing face masks and observing temperature protocols, but 14-day quarantines have no scientific basis, are unimplementable and unnecessary in circumstances where airline, train, and underground passengers wear face masks where social distancing isn’t possible.”


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