Mr. Eddie Wilson:

Just to make one thing clear, when we made the decision about the based aircraft, that affects the pilots and cabin crew who are based in Shannon and in Cork. These additional cutbacks clearly do not affect those staff because these are flights that originate from London or other bases elsewhere. It is entirely due to demand, however. The reason there is no demand is that the Government is saying, "Don't fly". The Government has not opened up the green list. That is the only option. Today it says all of Europe and the UK is closed. One cannot operate an airline without passengers. While there may well be some flights that are better booked than others, I can tell the Acting Chairman that the bookings out of Cork and Shannon are absolutely shocking. If something is to be done for those airports, it needs to be done now by the Minister. We put a lot of time into this. We went down and met all of the politicians in Cork. We met airport management and our staff. We telegraphed this very clearly for more than six weeks and we did not get one phone call from the Government about what it could do to avert it. We are still flailing around in the darkness as to what we are going to do. One cannot run an airline without demand. At its most basic, we are an island nation and we must be able to say to people that they will not be demonised for travelling. We are responsible in this industry, we do everything that is risk-based and we are not going to make money-----