Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, today (Thurs, 17 Sept) called on the Irish Government to put an end to their chaotic mismanagement of Travel during the Covid-19 crisis. Instead of adopting the EU traffic light system they promised to do only last Tuesday, they have today departed from that policy by taking Italy and Greece from the green list when both countries have Covid rates 60%+ less than Ireland and are also classified under the new EU system as having no travel restrictions within the EU.
Under the new EU travel policy, all EU countries listed below in ‘green’ and ‘orange’ would not have any restrictions. This is another nonsensical decision by this Government who at the same time continue to ignore the Report of their own Aviation Task Force, which has been on Minister Ryan’s desk for over 2 months.
A Ryanair Spokesperson said:
“Today’s announcement shows that the left hand of the Govt doesn’t know what its right hand is doing. There is no scientific basis behind the decision by Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney to remove Italy and Greece from the Green list only to add them back again in 3 weeks time.
Meanwhile, the Govt continues to ignore the report from its own Aviation Task Force which has been sitting on Minister Ryan’s desk for over 2 months. Over 140,000 people are directly / indirectly employed in Aviation with a further 325,000 employed in Tourism who depend on the aviation sector, and this continual, disjointed and mismanaged approach is putting all of these jobs at risk .
We call on the Government to immediately put in place the EU traffic light system that would see 21 EU countries including Italy and Greece, not requiring any restrictions”.
Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, today (Wed, 16 Sept) called on the Irish Government to scrap the 14-day quarantine for all EU countries that are classified as ‘Green’ or ‘Orange’ in the EU Commission’s traffic light system, to allow air travel for Irish citizens to resume immediately without any “North Korean” 14-day quarantines.
According to the latest data on the ECDC website, all the EU countries listed below in ‘green’ and ‘orange’ do not require a 14-day quarantines and therefore the Irish Govt should scrap any restrictions to these destinations with immediate effect. This means that countries like Italy and Greece should remain on Ireland’s green list while UK, Portugal, Belgium and many can now be added so that Ireland can re-connect with Europe after 5 months of almost complete isolation.
A Ryanair Spokesperson said:
“We call on the Irish Govt to stop damaging air travel and immediately align Ireland’s green list with the EU Commission’s traffic light system, allowing countries like Italy and Greece to remain while others like UK, Poland, Portugal, Sweden or Belgium can be added NOW.
Irish aviation and tourism cannot afford any further delays or indecision by Eamon Ryan – he needs to bring Ireland into line with EU policy today or tomorrow, not in October”.
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Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (15 Sept) announced it will add more flights from Vilnius to Liverpool. In light of strong demand from both Lithuanian & British consumers, Ryanair will now fly 3 times weekly (+1) from Vilnius to Liverpool from the 25th October as part of its Winter 2020 schedule.
Ryanair’s Lithuanian customers can now book a winter city break to Liverpool as far out as March 2021, flying on the lowest fares and with a new set of health measures that Ryanair has rolled out to protect its customers and crew.
To celebrate, Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares available from just €19.99, for travel until the end of December 2020, which must be booked by midnight Thursday (17 Sept), only on the Ryanair.com website.
Ryanair’s Director of Commercial Jason Mc Guinness said:
“Ryanair is pleased to announce it will now fly even more often from Vilnius to Liverpool commencing from the 25th October 2020.
Ryanair’s Lithuanian customers can now book a winter city break to Liverpool, flying on the lowest fares and with a new set of health measures that Ryanair has rolled out to protect its customers and crew.
To celebrate this announcement, we are launching a seat sale with fares available from just €19.99, for travel from the 25th October, which must be booked by midnight Thursday (17 Sept). Since these amazing low fares will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (15 Sept) announced it will add more flights from Liverpool to Vilnius. In light of strong demand from both British and Lithuanian consumers, Ryanair will now fly 3 times weekly (+1) from Liverpool to Vilnius from the 25th October as part of its Winter 2020 schedule.
Ryanair’s British customers can now book a winter getaway to Vilnius as far out as March 2021, flying on the lowest fares and with a new set of health measures that Ryanair has rolled out to protect its customers and crew.
To celebrate, Ryanair has launched a seat sale with fares available from just £19.99, for travel until the end of December 2020, which must be booked by midnight Thursday (17 Sept), only on the Ryanair.com website.
Ryanair’s Director of Commercial Jason Mc Guinness said:
“Ryanair is pleased to announce it will now fly even more often from Liverpool to Vilnius commencing from the 25th October 2020.
Ryanair’s British customers can now book a winter getaway to Vilnius, flying on the lowest fares and with a new set of health measures that Ryanair has rolled out to protect its customers and crew.
To celebrate this announcement, we are launching a seat sale with fares available from just £19.99, for travel from the 25th October, which must be booked by midnight Thursday (17 Sept). Since these amazing low fares will be snapped up quickly, customers should log onto www.ryanair.com and avoid missing out.”
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, and the Erasmus Student Network today (15 Sep) celebrated the launch of their fourth year partnership. Delivered as part of Ryanair’s customer care improvements, this partnership offers Erasmus students a dedicated ESN booking platform on the Ryanair.com website, where they can avail of 10% flight discounts on 4 one-way flights and a free checked-in bag with every flight booked.
Since 2017, ESN students have travelled with even lower fares across the Ryanair network with Italy and Spain being the most popular destinations over the last three years with over 95,000 bookings made on flights to Italy and 80,000 to Spain.
The fourth year of the exclusive partnership is now live on the Ryanair.com website, and students from over 500 Universities across almost 50 countries can now avail of these exclusive travel discounts with Ryanair.
Matthew Krasa, Ryanair’s Head of Public Affairs said:
“Ryanair and ESN have done more than any other organisations to promote European student mobility over the past three decades. We are pleased to launch the fourth year of our exclusive partnership with the Erasmus Student Network, offering university students across Europe a range of exclusive flight offers, free bags and tailored discounts to suit their budget on our Erasmus Student Network dedicated platform. ESN students have travelled on even lower fares since the beginning of the ESN partnership in 2017, with over 175,000 booking made to travel to Italy and Spain, the most popular destinations. We hope many more ESN students will avail of these fantastic discounts over the coming months and years.
Any Erasmus student with a valid ESNcard can sign up via the “MyRyanair” registration service and save even more while they travel on Europe’s biggest airline with the widest route network and the lowest fares.”
Kostantinos Giannidis, President of ESN said:
“In times where student mobility is facing many challenges due to the global pandemic, Erasmus Student Network and Ryanair are continuing providing incentives to students to make their mobility experience more affordable. Thanks to Ryanair and this partnership thousands of Erasmus+ students benefit from extra services and discounts. Ryanair understands the values of the Erasmus+ program in building a more inclusive society and it’s an active contributor to the Erasmus Generation.”
For more information visit https://www.ryanair.com/ie/en/plan-trip/explore/erasmus
Ryanair, la compagnia aerea numero 1 in Europa, ha annunciato oggi (11 settembre) che incrementeà il numero di frequenze nazionali tra Milano Malpensa e Bari. In seguito alla forte domanda da parte dei consumatori italiani, Ryanair, a partire dall’8 ottobre, opererà 9 voli settimanali (6 in più) tra i due aeroporti.
I viaggiatori italiani possono ora prenotare un viaggio in una delle due destinazioni volando con le tariffe più basse e con una nuova serie di misure sanitarie che Ryanair ha implementato per proteggere i propri clienti e l’equipaggio.
Per festeggiare, Ryanair ha lanciato una promozione speciale con tariffe a partire da soli €7.99 per viaggiare dall’8 ottobre, prenotabili entro la mezzanotte di domenica (13 settembre), solo su Ryanair.com.
Jason Mc Guinness, Direttore commerciale di Ryanair, ha dichiarato:
“Ryanair è lieta di annunciare l’introduzione di frequenze aggiuntive per collegare Milano Malpensa e Bari a partire dall’8 ottobre 2020.
I viaggiatori italiani possono ora prenotare un viaggio a Bari o a Milano, volando con le tariffe più basse e con una nuova serie di misure sanitarie che Ryanair ha implementato per proteggere i propri clienti e l’equipaggio.
Per festeggiare, abbiamo lanciato un’offerta speciale con tariffe a partire da appena €7,99 per viaggiare dall’8 ottobre, prenotabili entro la mezzanotte di domenica (13 settembre), solo su Ryanair.com. Dal momento che queste incredibili tariffe termineranno rapidamente, invitiamo i clienti a collegarsi al sito www.ryanair.com e prenotare oggi il loro viaggio insieme a noi!”
End NPHET’s “North Korea” Travel Quarantine
Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, today (Fri 11th Sept) called on the Irish Government to commit to implementing the EU Commission’s coordinated plan for intra-EU air travel, and to lift the “North Korea” travel restrictions, which Ireland has suffered under NPHET’s mismanagement of the Green List since 1 July last.
NPHET – who masquerade as “experts”, but are in fact a group of Dept of Health Civil Servants – have terrified the Irish Government into imposing Europe’s tightest air travel restrictions since 1 July last, effectively preventing Irish citizens travelling to the UK, Germany, or many other EU States, all of whom have lower Covid case rates than Ireland. This failed Green List is the latest example of NPHET’s mismanagement coming on top of their failure to protect the nursing homes, meat factories, their delay in mandating face masks and their failure to implement an effective test and trace system in Ireland. Ireland’s aviation and tourism sectors are being devastated by this Dept of Health mismanagement and NPHET’s incompetence.
The EU Commission will next week roll out a coordinated approach to intra-EU air travel (see attached) for European citizens, restoring the freedom of movement subject to common sense and practical measures designed to protect citizens travelling between those EU countries with higher Covid case rates and inadequate testing regimes such as Ireland. These measures (which will be updated weekly by the ECDC) must be immediately adopted by Ireland, which will finally allow Irish citizens to resume air travel to/from major markets the UK, Germany, Sweden and other EU States who now have significantly lower Covid case rates than Ireland.
A Ryanair Spokesperson said:
“After months of NPHET mismanagement of face masks, and travel restrictions, these EU Commission proposals are proportionate, sensible and reflect the successful policies followed by EU States like Germany and Italy, who allowed safe intra-EU air travel since 1 July, but have maintained significantly lower Covid case rates than NPHET has managed here in Ireland, despite restricting air travel like North Korea.
Ryanair calls on the Irish Government to ignore the mismanagement by NPHET of international air travel and immediately adopt these sensible and practical EU Commission proposals. NPHET have mismanaged the reopening of the Irish economy, and they have spectacularly mismanaged Ireland’s Green List, which has continued to lock down Ireland – like North Korea – since July when many other EU States have allowed safe intra-EU air travel, but maintained significantly lower Covid case rates than Ireland, due to their superior test and tracing systems.
It is time to end NPHET’s mismanagement and for Micheál Martin’s Government to lead the resumption of EU air travel, and promote some modest recovery of the Irish economy this winter.”