Ryanair planes won’t return to the skies if the airline is forced to leave the middle seat empty to comply with “idiotic” in-flight social distancing rules, its chief executive, Michael O’Leary, has said to British newspaper The Guardian.
The boss of the low-cost airline added that if governments insisted on social distancing measures, then Ryanair’s business model would be in tatters and the carrier would not fly.
“We can’t make money on 66% load factors,” he said.
Read the entire article in The Guardian: Ryanair boss says airline won’t fly with ‘idiotic’ social distancing rules
This post was published on 23 April 2020 11:27
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