michael o'leary, good to have you with us. we are getting ready to reopen. tugal is on the green list but green and spain in amber. can the summer be saved with portugal alone? michael: good morning. it cannot be saved with portugal alone but we are already in mid-may. we expect the u.k. will add italy and greece to the green list before the end of may and spain probably in early june. we have seen a very strong rebound in our bookings the last six weeks. first week of april, we took about half a million bookings, last week, 1.5 million. we are not only a u.k. family, we have bookings in greece and spain and portugal, not in may, but june, july, august and september. we think that will continue. the u.k. has done a spectacular job on vaccinations, 60% of the population vaccinated. all of the scientific evidence over the weekend confirmed vaccinations are effective against the indian variant, but it is more -- it has higher rates of spread. but vaccines are effective against it. like previous experience with other variants, there is a two-week window and then

michael o'leary posting the worst record losses. >> strong snap back of bookings.vel starting from june, july, august if these trends continue, we would be looking reasonably optimistic to a strong second quarter of travel recovery >>> a $150 billion mega merger at&t in advanced talks with discovery in a bid to create a streaming giant to take on netflix and disney plus. >>> the death toll in gaza rises around 200 nearly half are women and children as israel is launching more rockets in the city more calls for cease-fire call, but the prime minister promising more raids >> we continue to act now as long as it takes to bring quiet and community to you, israel it will take time. >>> good morning happy monday welcome to "street signs." a busy show coming up. a big day in the uk today. this is the country as it is reopening today. i will talk about travel rules and you will be allowed to visit on the green list, including portugal, israel it is not just that, restaurants will serve customers and cinemas. limits on weddings and funerals will be relaxrelaxed a big day, j

and this is michael o'leary, who says that there was security agents on the flight. this was a case of state sponsored. i was a state sponsored hijacking state sponsored piracy, i think was very fighting for the crew for the passengers who were held under armed guard had their bag searched and when it was clear, it appears that the intent of the russian authorities was to remove a journalist and his travelling companion and we believed that was also some k g b agents, offloaded off the aircraft as well. i'm excited about the presumption i said president lucas shank wouldn't have taken such a dramatic step without being signed off by the kremlin. so is this likely to affect the already fraught relations between the, you and russia? well, that is something that we can really a few. i mean, russia was the reason for leaders to come together and have dinner tonight. and the 1st place to discuss the relations with russia that are being described as being at the lowest level and decades. even according to you foreign kalissa, chief. however, they're all always member state

ceo of michael o'leary spoke with bloomberg earlier today. have seen a very strong rebound in our forward bookings. about half a million bookings. last week we took 1.5 million bookings. there are an awful lot of u.k. families booking their holidays in greece and italy and spain and portugal. we think that is going to continue. the u.k. has done a spectacular job on vaccinations. 60% of the population now vaccinated. all of scientific evidence confirms vaccinations are effective against the indian variant, but the indian variant is more spreadable. the vaccinations are effective against it. we think, like previous experience with the brazilian, with the south african, everyone will come down because the vaccines are effective. reopening in europe will be the rollout of the vaccines. most european countries are predicting they will get to about 80% first dose vaccines by the end of june. we think we are looking at a very strong july, august, september. we think the booking trend supports that. anne-marie: germany has already raised some alarms.

a single person who has been publicizing his oppression of his own people >> the ryanair ceo michael y o'learyas giving an interview to a radio station and said he believes there were kgb agents on board the flight. these flights are traveling between two eu nation states >> you are right we had hints and evidence in the past that the belarusian kgb is acting beyond belarus. this is the clearest demonstration of that so far there's a carefully planned operation. it appears to involve belarusian kgb officials operating on eu soil in the carefully coordinated operation to force down an eu flight. again, this shows the international dimension of the threat to the countries around it >> good morning, nigel do you think more sanctions from the eu would work in this instance given the eu already has sanctions against the regime those don't seem to have beared any fruit? >> the sanctions the eu imposed take time to work. we need pay setience in the mat. there is a great deal more that the eu can and should do indeed the united states as well these include, for example, banning flights from landing in

we'll hear now from the of ryan, and this is michael o'leary, who says that there was security agents on the flight. this was a case of state sponsored, it was a state sponsored hijacking state sponsored piracy, i think was very fighting for the crew for the passengers who were held under armed guard had their bag searched and when it was clear, it appears that the intent of the russian authorities was to remove a journalist and his travelling companion, and we believe there was also some k g, b agents offloaded off the aircraft as well. i'm kind of at the presumption, i said, president lucas shanker wouldn't have taken such a dramatic step without being signed off by the kremlin. so is this likely to affect the already fraught relations between the you in russia? well, that is something that we can really a few. i mean, russia was the reason for leaders to come together and half the dinner tonight in the 1st place to discuss the relations with russia that are being described as being at the lowest level and decades. even according to foreign policy chief, however, they're all always

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manus: getting back to pre-covid demand levels, michael o'leary was with me this morning. we are going to need a vaccine passport and that will take over from the pcr. do you see that happening, vaccine passports? >> i think we are lucky if we talk about the uae. we did vaccinate 12 million doses have been given. that is really more than our population. i would say 105%. that is very positive. of course, we need some kind of protocol. whatever you would call it. passport, whatever name it is given, that will make people happy to see there is less work they have to do. manus: you support vaccine passports for protocols? >> yes. whatever it is called. there should be a procedure easy between government that you can enter any country or leave that country. manus: the u.k. is probably one of your most important routes and yet we were not included on the green list. why was that? >> i think there was a bit of people who really pushed a lot because we were open. a lot of citizens and people came during the new year, enjoyed it here. in dubai, the restrictions, keeping our distan

we were hearing there from michael o'leary of— roman. vilnius. —— a newsflash three from reuters. we know obviously one of those who left the plane and didn�*t go back was roman protasevich, which would indicate obviously then three others potentially those agents. he was returning from athens, where i know you had met him previously, you had met him for an event, i think you met him for an event, i think you met him for an event, i think you met him there last week. can you tell us what, did you have any discussions around any security concerns at that point? t discussions around any security concerns at that point?- discussions around any security concerns at that point? i had an official visit _ concerns at that point? i had an official visit to _ concerns at that point? i had an official visit to greece _ concerns at that point? i had an official visit to greece a - concerns at that point? i had an official visit to greece a week. concerns at that point? i had an i official visit to greece a week ago, and romanjoined us to make a pho

we'll hear now from the see of ryan, and i say this is michael o'leary, who says that there was security agents on the flight. this was a case of state sponsored. i was a state sponsored hijacking state sponsored piracy, i think was very fighting for the crew for the passengers who were held under armed guard had their bag searched and when it was clear, it appears that the intent of the russian authorities was to remove a journalist and his travelling companion and we believe there was also some k g, b agents, offloaded off the aircraft as well. i'm excited about the presumption they said president lucas shank wouldn't have taken such a dramatic step without it being signed by the kremlin. so is this likely to affect the already fraught relations between the, you and russia? well, that is something that we can really su, i mean, russia was the reason for leaders to come together and half the dinner tonight. the 1st place to discuss the relations with russia that are being described as being at the lowest level and decades, even according to foreign policy chief. however, they're all alw

. >> michael o'leary, the ceo of ryan air the budget airline based in ireland called it quote, stateed piracy. yesterday, ryan air flight from greece to let the way know was interrupted by a mid 21 fighter jet forcing it to land in belarus, where authorities detain journalist room pratasevich, who was a parliament predict of the belarusian president love a shank oh who is closely in line with the russian president vladimir putin. -- the european union has called on all eu baselines to avoid flying over belarus, and has asked the european union to begin the process of banning belarusian airlines from flying over, and landing, at airports in the eu. tonight, the white house really -- put out a statement calling the ryan airline a direct affront a direct affron joining us now is ben rhodes, former deputy national -- of with bin -- with obama. the white house statement came out tonight, it seems to be more than several hours in the making but the language is about as strong as those statements get. >> yeah, because what we're dealing with is something we have never quite seen before. we

financial year to the end of march down from close to 150000000 the year before crew chief executive michael o'leary said it had been the most challenging year in writing is 35 year history the airline slashed capacity and slashed jobs around a 1000 employees were show in the door but o'leary said the airline was optimistic for a turnaround in the coming months. the you keep maxine our program has been extraordinarily successful we're up to 60 percent of the adult population one back the fur and see there are still those you are because you recognize that they're beginning to live the shushan zone even though you gave visitors portugal this morning we're very hopeful that easily greece will be added to that green list before the end of may and shortly thereafter the current estimate is that the airline will come back to about 2 thirds of its previous capacity over the next 12 months but in its april to june quarter usually one of its busiest the airline is likely to carry only around 5000000 passengers. and bring in colorado's nor markets man in frankfurt here and conrad ryanair hopes for a recovery

. >> getting back to pre-covid demand levels, michael o'leary said we will need a vaccine passport androm the pcr. do you see that happening? >> we talk at the uae, we have vaccinated -- 12 million doses have been given and that is more than now population --our population. of course we need some kind of structure -- whatever name it is given -- that will make people happy to see that it is less work they have to do. >> you support vaccine passports? >> whatever it is called. there should be a procedure easy between governments. >> the u.k. is probably one of your most important routes and yet we were not included on the green last. why was that -- green list. why was that? >> there were people who pushed a lot because we were open, people who came during the new year's, enjoyed it here and here in dubai we are keeping our distance. everyone is wearing their mask, doing what is necessary. on the airline side, you will see we took every measure to be sure that our passengers and our staff on board and underground -- >> has they u.k. been transparent enough? >> i do not think so. it is v

>> i think that's a growing question and you heard what michael o'leary said from ryan air, we had hima week, week and a half ago, and he was very supportive of dave calhoun and the upper management at boeing, but he blasted the commercial airplane division at boeing, saying what's going on in seattle he repeatedly said somebody has to get seattle to get its act together and i'm paraphrasing there that's essentially what he had to say so this gets to the heart of it, jim. the 787 dreamliner and the broader question about the commercial airplane division. >> it's never-ending, phil i'm sure the company has told people, listen, it's going to be rocky, there are these issues, and this is boeing, dave calhoun should be in seattle, the top brass should leave chicago, or wherever they are, and just go there, and just baby-sit this and get this thing done because this is not the boeing that you and i know it's just not. >> it seems like it's two steps forward and one step back. two steps forward, and one step back and i think that has people at least questioning whether or not boeing needs to

you know, this has been going on for some time with the 787 dreamliner you heard michael o'leary whenem with dave calhoun and the senior management at boeing i do have a problem with how seattle, the commercial airplane division, is handling a number of the questions with regard to manufacturing processes. so that question is out there once again because of this delay. >> phil, thanks so much. much appreciated as always boeing down about a percent and a half today. >>> up next, the council of economic advisers member jared bernstein on president biden's first budget proposal which assumes the corporate tax rate may be hiked to 28%. a number that may face a lot of resistance in congress. >>> later dr. scott gottlieb weighs in on the vaccine rollout and how the need for booster shots could affect the economic reopening. >>> as we head to break check out some of the top search tickers on cnbc.com. amc topping the list followed by the 10-year yield, ale, pp salesforce and gamestop. we're back in a couple of minutes. out of convenience, or necessity. we can explore uncharted waters, and no

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