Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Willie Walsh:

That is not necessarily the case because if one is operating between Shannon and London, given that there is no London cabin crew base, although there used to be many years ago, or a Shannon cabin crew base, one will have to have cabin crew and indeed pilots staying in a hotel somewhere. That is not unusual. In fact, in the case of the Dublin-Heathrow service, there are often pilots and cabin crew in hotels in London to enable the early-morning departures out of Heathrow into Dublin, so it is not impossible to do it. The question is-----

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