Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on Aviation

Mr. Ray Gray:

The key point to be made is that international travel and travel to this island is facilitated through aircraft, and aircraft will be deployed where there are commercial routes and a commercial basis. That is the key point. We have to be open for business, otherwise our airline customers are not going to serve, or serve sufficiently, our island economy.

That would have a huge and terrible impact both on the economy and on business in general. This is also clear from what the WHO said insofar as considerations about international travel have to be measured having regard to both the health concerns and the impacts they have on people's lives in a given country.

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