Ryanair has announced it will cut its planned October flight capacity from 50% of last year’s levels to 40%.
A spokesman for the airline said: “We are disappointed to reduce our October capacity from 50% of 2019 to 40%.
“However, as customer confidence is damaged by Government mismanagement of Covid travel policies, many Ryanair customers are unable to travel for business or urgent family reasons without being subjected to defective 14-day quarantines.”
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), an advisory group, said that during the pandemic Ryanair has taken £600 million from a Bank of England support scheme, put many of its staff on furlough, and plans to cut around 3,000 jobs.
Last month the business was forced to slash a fifth of its flights in September and October as bookings dropped because of new Covid-19 infection rates.
