Mr. Donal Moriarty:

Touching on the answer we gave when we were before this committee about eight weeks ago, our short-haul fleet has reduced since 2019, when we had 37 short-haul aircraft. During the course of this summer, we had 31 short-haul aircraft and we have just added two A320neo aircraft based in Dublin, as Ms Embleton said. However, we are still down four short-haul aircraft versus 2019 numbers and that is one of the impacts the pandemic has had on our business. There is significant competition for the deployment of those aircraft. We will deploy them to their commercial strength and where they best fit. Although it has not been announced, I do not believe our summer schedule out of Shannon Airport for 2023 will include the services we announced previously, such as Paris and Barcelona, but never had the opportunity to commence.