Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Shannon Group: Chairperson Designate
Mr. Conal Henry:
Again, I do not want the committee to overestimate my actual expertise at this level. I did work in aviation but that was 20 years ago. What we are seeing is something I call route density. When IAG acquired Aer Lingus, it started trying to reroute traffic away from Heathrow and into Dublin. That has driven a lot of passengers there. That is doable at Shannon. There is no reason it could not be done at Shannon if you had the right level of route density. If a passenger booking a flight from Newcastle or Bristol to JFK, who would currently go through Dublin, went through Shannon-----
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