Irish Examiner view: Huge need to protect the public purse

Cost of Covid could be half that of infamous 2008 bank bailout

Air travel has been severely hit by the impact of Covid.

The sobering evidence offered by Aer Lingus chief executive Lynn Embleton to the Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications was a hard reality check on how the pandemic has eviscerated well-established businesses. 

Ms Embleton pointed out that the airline loses €1m a day because of travel restrictions and that pandemic losses are already in the region of €1bn.