Additional routes will be announced in the coming weeks, “as demand increases and containment measures in Europe are relaxed”.
Easyjet ready for (re) takeoff. In a statement issued Thursday, May 21, the British airline announced its intention to resume certain flights from June 15. It would be “mainly domestic flights to the UK and France”.
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“A small number of flights will start again on journeys where we think there is enough demand to allow profitable flights”, says the low-cost carrier, almost all of whose planes are currently shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has crippled global traffic.
“Additional routes will be announced in the coming weeks as demand increases and containment measures in Europe are relaxed” continues the company, which will introduce health safety measures on board: wearing masks, improved disinfection of devices, disinfectant dispensers and anti-bacterial wipes, and no food served at first.
It will be July for Raynair
His rival “low cost” Irish Ryanair had spoken of a recovery from July. British Airways spoke of July but its boss Willie Walsh believed that these plans were likely to be thwarted by the quarantine measures which the British government intends to impose on travelers arriving from abroad.
The International Air Transport Association (Iata) had indicated a few days ago that it envisaged the resumption of national flights in June and continental flights from July, with a health protocol which must be presented at the end of the month.
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