Omicron threat: A little respect for the travel industry will go a long way

Ryanair’s chief executive, Michael O’Leary, has criticised the British government’s ‘panicky’ response to the Omicron variant. Photograph: Stephanie Lecocq/EPA

Life comes at you fast in the travel industry in the time of Omicron. On Wednesday, Ryanair’s chief executive, Michael O’Leary, told the Guardian newspaper that the UK government’s response to the new vaccine-dodging variant is replete with “panic” being spread by “idiots”. From the perspective of an airline that now expects to fly one million fewer passengers in December than it thought it would just weeks ago, this is an understandably crotchety stance.

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