Mr. Martin Murray:

These are direct flights from Helsinki and people from Ireland fly to Helsinki to connect with flights going to Asia. What the Chairman said is very true because of a fallacy in Ireland, which arises from human nature. We deal primarily in a world that is English speaking and we deal primarily with UK, Europe and the US. While we think everybody knows about us, there are very few Murrays, Murphys and Sullivans in China, Indonesia or Japan. As for Helsinki, the airport is still owned by the State. We had a very good discussion with the State airport personnel who, albeit from a different geographical basis, from the outset believed that Asia was critical.

From the time of the setting up the whole structure and the flight patterns, it wanted to focus on Asia and on being a hub for Asians coming into Europe, and vice versa. It is a hub for connecting flights but from the very beginning it was very much driven by the view that Asia was a priority to be focused on. Ireland has not had that history. Understandably, we have focused on Europe and the United States.