Originally Posted by
OzzyOzBorn
That proposed 14-day mandatory quarantine period will kill virtually all passenger air travel stone dead. What business executive can travel on those terms? What employee can return home from their annual holiday only to phone into work to say they're in great health but they're entering two weeks of quarantine? This proposal would be quite catastrophic for economic recovery, let alone for the commercial aviation industry.
Since most other contries are also following the 2 week quarantine rule your holliday would most likely be spent in quarantine there as well. So by going on a 2 week foreign holliday you are comitting to 4 weeks of quarantine. I thought most would have had to much of quarantining already by now to go for that. Who will be flying are excempts and they who go for work purpose for much more than 2 weeks..
We will have to wait and see what the tourist ministers of Europe come to in their get together. Some countries completely depending on the tourist industry for most of their income are pressing for some arrangement, possibly that some complete resorts are seen as quarantine zones. Probably starting with reciprocal arrangements between neighbours. But the risks are that rules suddenly change while you are away, or when you are waiting for your booked holliday to begin and you are denied a quick refund. Ref the company who's name this thread bears. That 6 month refund delay could certainly come back and bite Ryanair, and other airlines, in the proverbials when it comes to future bookings in uncertain times.