Mr. Donal Moriarty:

We operated nine routes, including Amsterdam, Munich and London Heathrow. It really does go back to the scale of our short-haul fleet and the reduction of the fleet. The reduction of the fleet happened during the pandemic because of the impact of the pandemic on the business. We had to reduce our short-haul fleet. As we have mentioned, we had 37 directly operated or owned aircraft and it reduced to 31. Recently this was increased to 33 with the arrival of two A320neo in the past two weeks. The scale of our fleet has reduced significantly and, therefore, what we have to do as a commercial business is to deploy this fleet most efficiently and most effectively. Earlier we touched on how Dublin Airport is very important to Aer Lingus because of the connecting flow of traffic and it being a hub. Many of our short-haul services into Dublin are not just point-to-point but provide connecting traffic onto our long-haul service. As Ms Embleton outlined earlier, we are growing our long-haul services. We announced a new route last week and there will be more to come in this regard. This is why we have to make a commercial assessment of the most efficient deployment of our aircraft. This is why they are as they are at present. The good news is that the commercial assessment is an ongoing process. It is not-----