Ryanair CEO calls on unvaccinated to be banned from flying

Unvaccinated ‘shouldn’t be allowed’ on planes Ryanair CEO says.

 

Ryanair’s Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary has shared his thoughts that only vaccinated passengers should be allowed to fly.

 

The Telegraph newspaper in the UK said the Irish airline chief disagreed with compulsory vaccine programmes being rolled out in Austria and Germany, but backed the idea of “making life difficult” for people who refuse to take the vaccine.

 

O’Leary even went as far to say that the unvaccinated should be banned from hospitals.

 

“If you’re not vaccinated, you shouldn’t be allowed in the hospital, you shouldn’t be allowed to fly, you shouldn’t be allowed on the London Underground, and you shouldn’t be allowed in the local supermarket or your pharmacy either,” he said.

 

The Ryanair boss’ rationale is that by not allowing the unvaccinated to participate in certain activities, it would incentivise them to get the vaccine.

 

“If you tell someone under 30 years of age that they cannot get into a pub they’d get vaccinated pretty damn quickly,” he said.

 

O’Leary also hit out at “lunatic fringes”, who think the pandemic “is some government, big pharma conspiracy.”

 

In his interview, he also manged to take a swipe at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

 

Speaking about the PM, O’Leary said: “He was the one who said ‘f*** business’. And to be fair to him, he has followed through brilliantly, he has f***ed businesses all over the UK.

 

“If you were running a business, you wouldn’t hire Johnson, Michael Gove or Priti Patel. They’re all idiots. The only thing they have in common is that they were all Johnson-supporting Brexiteers.

 

“Anybody with any ability is kind of frozen out of the Cabinet.”