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Schengen Flight Ban - Ireland included ?

  • 29-04-2020 12:00pm
    #1
    SusanC10
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    I keep reading that there is a ban on travel into the Schengen Travel.Area from non-Schengen Countries. Each time it also states that the UK is exempt from the ban. There is never a mention of Ireland.

    Does anyone know where we stand ?

    I know that it doesn't really matter as noone is really going anywhere anyway but I am just curious.


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  • #2
    coylemj
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    SusanC10 wrote: »
    I keep reading that there is a ban on travel into the Schengen Travel.Area from non-Schengen Countries....

    There is no single, unilateral bar on travel into and out of the Schengen zone, that type of ban is put in place at a country level. Article 28 of the Schengen Borders Code allows the temporary restoration of controls at internal borders by individual countries.

    The one you quoted has been announced by France, there's possibly similar bans in place by other countries. I can see a few such restrictions but they have different expiration dates so they are not co-ordinated or synchronised at an EU or Schengen level.

    Air France is still running flights between Dublin and CDG. There may be restrictions on who can fly but there are flights operating between Ireland and France. Flight AF1816 from CDG landed in Dublin today at 13:30. Return flight due to depart at 14:15.

    You'll probably find that the UK and Ireland will get a free pass from any such ban on flights between Schengen and non-Schengen countries.


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