It comes after the Foreign Commonwealth Office warned against all but essential travel to several more popular tourist destinations including Malta and Morocco. Poland and Norway have now also grounded all international flights, while in other countries there has been a severe reduction of airport services. The budget airline said it expects the result of these restrictions will be the grounding of the majority of its aircraft fleet across Europe over the next seven to ten days. O'Leary said the spread of Covid-19 and associated Government travel restrictions, many of which have been imposed without notice, have had a significant and negative impact on its entire network. "We are communicating with all affected passengers by email and SMS, and we are organising rescue flights to repatriate customers, even in those countries where travel bans have been imposed.

Source: Daily Mirror March 16, 2020 10:30 UTC