15 April 2021
Europe’s largest airline association says that making airlines responsible for policing Ireland’s mandatory hotel quarantine rules is “simply mad”.
Jennifer Janzen of the Brussels-based Airlines for Europe said: “The idea that airlines should be expected to deny boarding if passengers do not have mandatory hotel bookings on top of all the other requirements makes no sense and airline staff are simply not trained to police it.”
The European Regions Airline Association Director General, Montserrat Barriga, said “extreme travel restrictions, in particular quarantines, have been ineffective to combat Covid-19 “over the past year”.
