The head of Europe’s largest low-cost airline has flogged on what he calls “Boris Johnson’s mismanagement of the Covid pandemic” and called for vaccinated travelers to be able to fly unrestricted between the UK and the EU.

Currently, the quarantine-free “green list“Has only two possible destinations: Gibraltar and Iceland.

Ryanair‘s CEO, Michael O’Leary, said: “The UK’s Covid travel policy is in ruins.

“The green list does not exist because countries like Malta and Portugal with lower Covid case numbers than Great Britain and rapidly increasing vaccination rates stay on amber.

“Meanwhile, British citizens, of whom nearly 80 percent will be vaccinated by the end of June, continue to face Covid restrictions on entering and leaving the European Union – although the majority of EU citizens are also vaccinated by the EU will be at the end of June. “

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Mr. O’Leary has spoken one day after the request to suspend the passenger obligation for several years to help the travel industry recover from the crisis.

On June 3rd, the transport secretary Grant Shapps, removed the only mainstream Green List nation, Portugal, and placed it on the Amber List – Triggering a home rush to avoid quarantine.

Announcing the tightening of controls, Mr Shapps said, “The public has always known travel will be different this year and we must continue to take a cautious approach to reopening international travel for the sake of public health and the introduction of To protect vaccines.

“While we are making great strides in the UK on introducing the vaccine, we continue to say that the public should not travel to off-green list destinations.”

The Labor Party has called for all Yellow List targets to be moved to the Red List, with mandatory hotel quarantine for almost all travelers.

Due to existing restrictions on incoming travelers, outbound traffic is only a small fraction of normal summer levels and inbound tourism to the UK has almost completely collapsed.

The Ryanair chief said: “It is time for Boris Johnson to end his gross mismanagement of Covid and the recovery from Covid and use the successful UK vaccine program to restore the free movement of vaccinated British citizens and their families and” out of the EU, where Covid case rates are lower than the UK and vaccination rates are rising rapidly ”.

“This will at least allow the UK tourism industry to plan for the remainder of the summer season and get hundreds of thousands of people back to work.”

On Friday, Tourism Minister Nigel Huddleston announced a program to restore incoming tourism to the UK by 2023.

“The tourism recovery plan is our blueprint for how the sector can better recover from the pandemic, even faster than forecast,” he said.