Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 April 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: (Resumed) Virgin Atlantic Airlines
10:30 am
Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I will add a point about interline arrangements. Does Mr. Thompson not agree that, based on experience, it is inevitable that the current interline agreement between Aer Lingus and Virgin Atlantic Airlines will disappear? Mr. Thompson has already mentioned the experience of BMI, where the interline agreements disappeared overnight. From a competitive point of view, why would IAG continue to tolerate the type of interline agreement that exists between Virgin Atlantic Airlines, a major competitor, and Aer Lingus? Surely it would disappear. Is that a concern of Mr. Thompson?
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