Mr. Eddie Wilson:

I really do not want to be thinking about that. Aviation is one of those industries where people can be more transferable. They might not want to do it but pilots and cabin crew in Cork and Shannon may well move with their aircraft in the hope that things will come back. The thing about aviation is that we have relatively small numbers of people for the movement of the aircraft. Of course, there are significant implications for the wider economy, including people working at the airports, taxi drivers operating out of them, hotels, attractions and all of that. I do not want to be thinking about job losses because we will continue to work with our people. We have implemented agreements whereby we have not made anyone redundant among our crews in Cork, Shannon and Dublin. We want to be able to bring them back. If that means that those aircraft go elsewhere, then it may be an unpalatable solution for some of our people but they will be doing so in the hope that we would come back at some other stage. In the short term, this is going to be disastrous for Ireland and I do not think people realise what is coming next summer.

We are going to miss the boat or the plane.