Aer Lingus owner criticises UK Covid-19 quarantine plan

The owner of Aer Lingus and British Airways, IAG has exhausted every avenue to shore up its finances and is burning through cash, its chief executive Willie Walsh said, as the aviation industry warned of the fresh damage it would suffer if Britain quarantines international arrivals.

Mr Walsh told the UK parliament’s transport committee IAG would have to review plans to resume flying in July if the British government pressed ahead with plans to introduce a quarantine on most people coming into the country by air as part of measures to prevent a second peak of the coronavirus pandemic.