Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary confirmed a normal schedule of commercial flights won't return until June 17. Ryanair is waiving the change fee for any flights booked up to the end of May, which can be changed to date up until the end of August.
A statement reads: "As most EU countries have imposed flight bans or other restrictions, over 90 percent of Ryanair's aircraft are grounded for the coming weeks. "We will comply with these restrictions at all times. We are working with EU Governments to try to keep some minimum flight links open for emergency reasons, even though the passenger loads on these flights are very low.
"All the aircraft are disinfected daily. With low loads, social distancing is being optimized on-board. We ask all passengers to cooperate fully with our crews who are doing their best in difficult times to maintain vital links to/from Ireland and to/from the UK to facilitate our passengers and their families to deal with emergencies that may require urgent travel over the coming days and weeks.
"Ryanair apologizes sincerely for the unprecedented grounding of our aircraft fleet, and any schedule disruptions this may have caused, but we must all work together with EU Governments to minimize the impact of Covid-19 on our citizens and our health services."
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