Italy threatens to suspend Ryanair's right to fly in the country for 'breaking coronavirus health regulations'

  • Italy said Ryanair violated Covid-19 health regulations set by the government 
  • Italy threatened to suspend all 'air transport activities at national airports'  
  • At the end of July, Ryanair revealed losses of £168million after being forced to ground its fleet as Covid-19 wreaked havoc on timetables
Italy's national civil aviation authority ENAC threatened on Wednesday to suspend Ryanair's permit to fly in the country over alleged non-compliance with coronavirus safety rules.
It accused the Irish low-cost airline of 'repeated violations of the COVID-19 health regulations currently in force and imposed by the Italian government to protect the health of passengers'.
'Not only is the obligation to distance passengers not respected, but the conditions for making an exception to that rule are also being ignored', it said in a statement.

Italy's national civil aviation authority ENAC threatened on Wednesday to suspend Ryanair's permit to fly in the country over alleged non-compliance with coronavirus safety rules
Italy's national civil aviation authority ENAC threatened on Wednesday to suspend Ryanair's permit to fly in the country over alleged non-compliance with coronavirus safety rules 
If Ryanair continued to break the rules ENAC would 'suspend all air transport activities at national airports, requiring the carrier to re-route all passengers already in possession of tickets'.
Italy was the first European Union country to be seriously affected by the pandemic, which has officially killed over 35,000, but its contagion rate is currently far below levels seen in other parts of the bloc.
Ryanair was not immediately available to respond to a request for comment from MailOnline.  
Italy accused the Irish low-cost airline of 'repeated violations of the COVID-19 health regulations currently in force and imposed by the Italian government to protect the health of passengers'
Italy accused the Irish low-cost airline of 'repeated violations of the COVID-19 health regulations currently in force and imposed by the Italian government to protect the health of passengers' 
The potential legal action is not the first coronavirus-related trouble to hit the low-cost airline since the outbreak of the pandemic. At the end of July, Ryanair revealed losses of £168million after being forced to ground its fleet as Covid-19 wreaked havoc on timetables   
Ryanair said it suffered the 'most challenging' quarter in its 35-year history after carrying 500,000 passengers from April to June compared with 41.9million in the same period last year. Its share price fell 8 per cent in early trading this morning.
Meanwhile revenue collapsed from £2.1billion to £113million, with the Dublin-based carrier saying said a second wave of the disease was now its 'biggest fear'.  

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