Ms Mary Mulholland:

No. I am not blaming the airline for this. What I am saying is, because of the snowballing effect of Covid in itself, nobody knew when we were to fly again but at no stage was Shannon being closed. I would have made different decisions about my own life but the PUP payment, as far as we were concerned, was a stopgap. It was a get-out-of-jail free card to keep me and my colleagues going until we rode out this storm. As there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon, the rug was pulled out from under us.