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RYANAIR has announced it will remove up to 1,000 flights from its UK-Ireland routes in August and September with Kerry, Cork, Knock and Shannon routes affected.
They company released statement this afternoon said it will cut the flights due to what it terms Ireland’s “defective quarantine restriction on EU visitors”. They said this will result in 200,000 lost passengers between those four airports.
A statement from the airline reads: “Last week when the UK and Northern Ireland removed travel restrictions on short-haul flights to/from the European Union, Ireland became the only country in the EU with a blanket 14-day quarantine restriction on all arrivals from EU countries, most of which have lower Covid case rates than Ireland.
“Air travel between Ireland and the UK is being badly damaged by this ineffective 14-day quarantine. Ryanair will significantly reduce its flights between Ireland and the UK in August and September, to reflect this suppressed demand.”
