Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion

Ms Lynne Embleton:

As I said in my opening statement, Aer Lingus operated all of its schedule for May and 98.2% of its schedule for June. We are cancelling only a small percentage of flights for July. If we compare that with other airlines, we are seeing cancellation rates of 7%, 8%, 9%, 10%, and, in the case of EasyJet, 14%. Relative to the broader European landscape, Aer Lingus is cancelling very few flights. Similarly, as regards bags that are going on a simple point-to-point journey, which are typically short-haul flights, I would say 990 out of 1,000 bags handled by Aer Lingus are transported with no problems whatsoever. It is the connecting flights in other airports that are causing us issues and causing the extra workload we are trying to deal with.

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