O’leary’s fury at UK’S ‘idiotic’ quarantine
RYANAIR boss Michael O’leary yesterday rubbished the UK’S 14-day quarantine plans as “idiotic” .
It is not clear when the tough new measures start in Britain but it is believed travellers from Ireland will be exempt.
Mr O’leary said the budget airline will fly 80 million passengers this year – half the amount carried in 2019.
But its share price still surged more than 10% after it announced cuts and €1 billion profit in the year to the end of March.
Mr O’leary claimed Britain’s quarantine proposals have “no medical or scientific basis”, and instead said face masks would “eliminate” the risk of spread.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today: “It’s laughable this Government can come up with any plans for a quarantine that will be strict and fully enforced when already they are exempting the Irish, the French...
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“It is idiotic and it’s unimplementable. You don’t have enough police in the UK to implement a two-week lockdown.
“And what’s really worrying is that a two-week lockdown has no medical or scientific basis to it in any event.
“If you really want to do something effective – wear masks.”
Ryanair announced last week that it will operate nearly 1,000 flights per day from July 1 subject to European countries lifting flight restrictions and “effective public health measures” at airports.
But UK Ministers have said international travellers will be asked to quarantine for 14 days when they enter the UK, either in accommodation of their choice or provided by the Government.
An implementation date has not yet been announced.
A spokesman for the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted there had never been an exemption for France, but said there would be an exemption for Ireland as part of the common travel area.
He added the quarantine would be reviewed every three weeks.