Ryanair launches health passport app and announces over 1800 routes
Big news for Ryanair, which announced health passport in app and over 1,800 routes for summer 2021. The [...]
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Big news for Ryanair who announced Health passport in app and over 1,800 routes for summer 2021. The airline is looking forward to the immediate future with great optimism and is making the best preparations to enable its passengers to enjoy their flight experience without any fear.
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Right now, the top priority in the aviation industry is obviously finding ideal solutions to be able to identify customers who are vaccinated or negative for Covid-19. Ryanair revealed that it has launched a new in-app health passport to allow passengers to prove their health status.
As incidence rates of the virus decline and vaccination rates increase, the hope for the airlines is to be able to take advantage of the 2021 summer season, somewhat as was the case last year. Passengers, however, will have to prove that they have been vaccinated against Coronavirus or have tested negative for the swab. For this, Ryanair has developed an in-app solution called "COVID-19 Travel Wallet", which is available to all passengers and will allow all required certificates to be saved.
How Ryanair's Covid-19 Travel Wallet Works.
During the check-in process, passengers will be able to load Up to six documents on the Ryanair app.. These could be Covid-19 negativity certificates, vaccination certificates, and any other documents that various governments might require for travel. The document storage function is integrated into the app and therefore, as opposed to British Airways proposing document verification With the VeriFLY app, Ryanair proposes. a kind of locker To have everything at your cell phone's fingertips.
Dara Brady, Ryanair's marketing director, emphasized that the company is a big believer in vaccination and being able to travel safely, "In Europe, when the high-risk population is vaccinated by the end of May or June, restrictions will be reduced and requests to travel will return, just in time for the well-deserved summer vacation." Ryanair is currently working with an incredibly reduced amount of passengers due to the second wave, and the number of flights is not much different than during the height of the crisis just a year ago.
Ryanair's schedule for summer 2021
The announcement of Ryanair's Covid-19 Travel Wallet goes hand in hand with the airline's decision to plan a summer 2021 that is truly full of new features. There are 1,809 routes planned involving 221 airports and 37 countries. Thus, an increase of 112% over summer 2020 is expected with nearly 500 routes all currently bookable at the specified weekly frequencies. The list of the top 10 routes will give ample space to Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, the largest countries touched by Ryanair. In order of capacity, Stansted will lead the list of airports most affected by the new plan for summer 2021, followed by Dublin and Orio al Serio. This is the ranking of the top ten:
- Stansted
- Dublin
- Milan Bergamo (Orio al Serio)
- Palm
- Barcelona
- Brussels Charleroi
- Malaga
- Manchester
- Alicante
- Vienna
The absolute novelty is Vienna, which entered Ryanair's top 10 after replacing Lauda. The airline has planned 74 routes from the Austrian capital directed mainly to Palma, Milan Malpensa, Stansted, Tel Aviv and Charleroi.
