Mr. Niall MacCarthy:

We were starting on a relatively good base. We had nine scheduled airlines and 51 scheduled routes in Cork. Aer Lingus is continuing to operate into Heathrow and, periodically, into Amsterdam and have just indicated that they will continue to do so through the depths of whatever the crisis unfolds.

A new airline that we launched last year is KLM. We have a very successful relationship with KLM into Amsterdam. The Dutch royal family came over to be associated with the inaugural flight and presented us with some stuff. KLM has agreed that it will continue to operate. So we will have two scheduled airlines. We also have search and rescue, transplants, general aviation, the Air Corps and so on.

In passenger terms, we will be down by 95% but we will be open with scheduled airlines and scheduled routes.