Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion

Mr. Donal Moriarty:

No. That decision was taken during the pandemic and the primary motivation for taking it was to ensure our ability to resume our operations in Shannon Airport on a viable and commercial basis. We resumed our transatlantic services to New York and Boston in March 2022 and our London Heathrow service in October 2021. That decision has been successful but its success has been built primarily and significantly on the fact that we had to close the cabin crew base in order to make it viable. It would not be in our interest, the company's interest or the mid-west's interest for us to reopen a cabin crew base in Shannon Airport.

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