Ryanair slashes flight schedule after UK lockdown
Ryanair Holdings Plc slashed its winter schedule, denouncing new coronavirus-related travel restrictions as “draconian” and calling for faster vaccine rollouts in the UK and its home country of Ireland.
Europe’s biggest discount airline said it will offer few flights from Jan. 21 until the travel curbs are lifted. That goes beyond cutbacks made earlier in the week by rivals EasyJet Plc, British Airways and TUI AG. The Dublin-based airline said on its website that traffic will fall to below 1.25 million passengers in January, then drop to as few as 500,000 for February and March.
Traffic levels that low would be reminiscent of April and May of 2020, when air travel came to a near-standstill as the first round of coronavirus infections swept Europe.
