Ryanair has said it is considering cancelling a number of Irish routes as a result of the mandatory hotel quarantine system.
The airline said that routes to Paris, Brussels, Rome and Vienna are among those that could be axed in the coming weeks. The airline described the quarantine system as "defective" and called on the Taoiseach to deliver a roadmap for the reopening of EU air travel in time for summer holidays.
It said the system was particularly "absurd" for EU arrivals into Ireland because of the 500km land border shared with the UK which it says allows travellers into Ireland to easily avoid mandatory hotel quarantine It said travellers could easily avoid the system by flying into Belfast or travelling to another EU country not on the