Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Cabin crew staff in Shannon who have long serviced Aer Lingus's routes would content it is far more expensive to have four members of cabin crew minibussed down from Dublin, staying overnight and receiving all the overnight allowances and everything else which comes with that. I have heard costings ranging from approximately €240,000 per annum to in excess of €300,000. That is for a cabin crew of four. I would say that far exceeds having four members of staff on payroll, operating out of Shannon. That also needs to feed into Aer Lingus's ideology because there are economics to this too and the economics do not stack up on all occasions. Can Ms Embleton give any commitments today, in calendar terms, with regard to routing and scheduling for Heathrow and transatlantic services?