"On the return flight, we had a group of people from Northern Ireland in the two rows in front of us who once boarded, took off their masks. For the avoidance of all doubt he quotes the Ryanair website, which says, “Face masks/coverings are mandatory in the airport and on board your flight.” He notes that the rule is that all passengers have to wear face masks for the duration of the flight. Besides the upset, these hooligans represented a danger to all passengers on this flight”. He says the staff did not intervene and he expresses surprise that on touchdown “the police did not meet the plane and arrest this bunch of trouble-makers. “These yobbos ran up and down the aisle without masks, roaring and shouting, whistling and singing like at a football match!” "On the outward flight, we had the joy of five/six hoodlums at the back of the plane with their own ghetto blaster, blasting out music with obscene lyrics," he writes. He travelled with Ryanair to Faro for a weekend in the middle of this month. Next up there is a disturbing mail from a reader called Philip Begley. Currently, both the online and paper forms can be completed upon arrival into Ireland and before border checks.” Masks It currently does not require travel organisers to ensure international passenger have completed a PLF before travelling into Ireland. It added that regulations “place obligations on travel organisers to take reasonable steps to inform international passengers of his or her obligations around the PLF. In a statement it said “All passengers arriving into the State are required to complete a COvid-19 Passenger Locator Form”. We contacted the Department of Health which clarified the position. Where is our humanity? The stupidity of it all, people matter.” “After all we went through with the lockdown, people being ill and dying. He concludes by saying that what really annoyed him was leaving people behind, over a form they could have completed in Dublin. The guy at the airport helped me complete a form and my luggage should arrive on the next Air France flight into Dublin, which is on Wednesday, I think?” “I switched on my phone, I had got one from Air France – my luggage had obviously been taken off – as a passenger who was not ‘boarding’! Their text message simply said it was still in Paris. Another gentleman completed his and was also allowed to board.”Īnd as if all of that wasn’t stressful enough, he waited at the luggage carousel for his bags but there was no sign of it. At the last minute or so – I managed to complete the form and was allowed to board. There were at least two people whose native language was not English and they were asking ‘what does this mean?’ as they tried to complete it. “They even loaned an iPad to one passenger to see if he could log on with it. He says Air France staff were trying to help people complete the form. The guy I asked said, 'The Irish government does not want anybody to board unless they have completed the passenger locator form. "It all took time and as it got closer and closer to the flight's take-off time, I asked the Air France staff could I board and complete the form in Ireland. I had done it before so started and tried about six to seven times and the Irish Government site hosting the server for the forms did not 'respond' several times and I had to start all over again," he says. "The Air France staff at the gate said they had none and said you have to register online. At the boarding gate he asked for a paper version of the passenger locator form. Daniel Nagle was booked on an Air France flight from Paris to Dublin last week.
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