LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - The boss of easyJet said
that he did not expect the coming European summer travel season
to be ruined by the spread of a coronavirus variant first found
in India.
"I don't think that the outlook of this and the likeliness
and the probability is that because of the Indian variant the
summer is ruined," easyJet Chief Executive Johan Lundgren told
an online industry event on Wednesday.
The latest indications are that vaccines are effective
against the Indian variant, Lundgren said, as he warned of the
impact on airlines if Britain continues to restrict travel.
"I don't think that UK aviation as an industry can go
through another lost summer without grave consequences," he
said.
(Reporting by Sarah Young; Editing by Kate Holton)