IAG’s chief executive Luis Gallego called on governments to introduce airport testing as a way of releasing passengers from current quarantine restrictions.
Gallego, who took over from Willie Walsh earlier this year, made his comments as IAG slumped to a €1.3 billion operating loss for the third quarter of the year with passenger revenue plunging by 88.6% year-on-year for the three months to the end of September.
As a comparison, IAG made an operating profit of €1.425 billion for the same quarter last year. The operating loss was even higher at €1.92 billion when other costs such as the restructuring at BA and Aer Lingus are taken into account.
