'Nothing positive' for airlines in PM's speechpublished at 11:51 British Summer Time 11 May 2020
The chief executive of British Airways' parent company IAG has told the Commons Transport Select Committee there was "nothing positive" in Boris Johnson's speech on Sunday.
Willie Walsh said the 14-day quarantine for people arriving in the UK was "definitely going to make it worse" and would mean his airline's capacity would be "pretty minimal".
He said: "We had been planning to resume - on a pretty significant basis - our flying in July. I think we'd have to review that based on what the prime minister said yesterday."
The airline boss also spoke about a consultation over a restructuring plan involving up to 12,000 redundancies, insisting it was "solely" driven by what he called the biggest downturn the industry had ever seen.