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* Masks, temperature checks mandatory
* Queues for toilet to be banned
* CEO calls for 'idiotic' UK quarantine to be dropped
(Adds measures by rivals; EU regulators to rule on COVID safety
measures this week)
By Conor Humphries
DUBLIN, May 12 (Reuters) - Temperature checks, masks and
quarantine will not deter people from a holiday in the sun after
three months "locked up" at home, Ryanair's chief executive
Michael O'Leary said on Tuesday as he announced plans for 1,000
flights a day from July.
The Irish low-cost carrier is to make face coverings and
temperature checks mandatory for all staff and passengers while
the airline, Europe's largest, will scrap cash payments on board
and make customers seek permission to use the toilets.
Ryanair is the latest airline to announce measures aimed at
reassuring customers they can safely return to planes despite
the coronavirus pandemic and to try to get cash flowing again,
with compulsory masks by far the most common proposal so far.
"People have been locked up since the middle of March.
People are really gagging to get out and I think get abroad for
the sunshine," O'Leary told Reuters in a telephone interview.
"We will see a surge of bookings building over the next six
weeks up to July 1," O'Leary said, although this had not begun.
O'Leary said he was urging European authorities to make both
masks and temperature checks mandatory across the continent,
adding the idea of leaving the middle seats on single aisle
aircraft empty to allow for social distancing was now "dead".
The European regulator, European Union Aviation Safety
Agency, is to propose new safety measures for aviation later
this week.
Rivals Air France-KLM, Lufthansa and
Wizz have all made masks mandatory and the CEO of
British Airways owner IAG Willie Walsh has said he is
open to the idea.
Most airlines are disinfecting planes and several have
limited cabin service on board.
'OPEN SKIES'
Their focus in recent days, however, has been in resisting
quarantine periods being imposed across the continent.
O'Leary joined criticism of Britain's plan to make arriving
passengers quarantine for 14 days, saying the fact that France
and Ireland had been exempted proved it was unscientific.
"This isn't science," he said, adding the measure was
"unenforceable and unpoliceable" and would be ignored.
However, Ryanair said it will require all passengers to fill
out a form detailing the length of their planned visit and where
they will stay, information that will be provided to EU
governments to monitor any quarantine measures.
O'Leary said he was optimistic there would be no quarantine
periods for people travelling between countries in Europe's
Schengen free travel zone and he hoped that travel restrictions
to and from Britain and Europe would be dropped.
"Once the industry begins to recover towards
September-October, I think we will be back to essentially open
skies," he said, adding British families could happily
quarantine at home for two weeks after returning from their
holidays.
Earlier on Tuesday, Britain's health minister said Britons
were unlikely to be able to have an international holiday this
summer because of the pandemic.
END TO TOILET QUEUES
Once aboard their flight, O'Leary said people would not be
allowed to queue for the toilet on Ryanair planes and would have
wait for permission to get up from cabin crew.
Ryanair is to operate around 40% of its original flights
schedule from July up from a skeleton service of around 30
flights a day in May and June, he said. Ryanair should return to
its normal passenger number levels by 2021, with ticket price
levels returning to normal by 2022.
O'Leary also indicated Ryanair plans to move back towards an
all-Boeing fleet by cancelling leases for Airbus A320s for its
Lauda subsidiary and likely replacing 30 Airbus jets at the
Austrian airline with Boeing 737s.
(Reporting by Conor Humphries; Editing by Alexander Smith and
Mark Potter)
