Mr. Eddie Wilson:

In the airline industry we need to know whether people are going to travel. If we were going to sort out the bookings for November, then we should have had a new system in last August or September at the latest, so we would know what bookings would be. I can only deal with what I have and the simple answer is we are not flying because there is nobody booking. It is as simple as that. It is up to the Minister to talk to us and to say what things might work and the reasons for doing X,Y and Z.

I do not know whether testing in orange zones will work. Perhaps they will prove us wrong but we need a track record as to whether it is going to work. I keep coming back to this. In other European countries at the moment, a person can fly without that. We are an outlier and have been since the start of this. We are now reaping that in places like Cork and Shannon Airports which really depend on high load factors. There is nobody booking, so there is nothing I can do about it.