Ryanair Calls U.K.’s Air Bridge Plan ‘More Idiotic Rubbish’
- EasyJet and Ryanair repeat demand to scrap quarantine policy
- U.K. to publish list of nations with air bridges next week
A passenger aircraft, operated by Ryanair Holdings Plc, stands on the tarmac at London Luton Airport in Luton.
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Ryanair Holdings Plc dismissed the U.K.’s plan to relax quarantine requirements for people arriving from France, Greece and Spain as “more idiotic rubbish” and called for the restrictions to be scrapped entirely.
The government plans next week to publish a full list of the countries with which it will establish so-called air bridges -- exempting incoming travelers from self-isolating for two weeks. It hopes the measures will restore a semblance of normality to an airline industry that’s been devastated by the Covid-19 pandemic and is shedding thousands of jobs.