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:
Emerald Airlines will make its own commercial decisions in this regard. We contracted Emerald Airlines to commence its services on 1 January 2023. It commenced them in March 2022. Effectively this was three quarters earlier than it was originally contracted to do. This is to its credit. It will make its own commercial decisions as to its route network. It has made a very strong start.
Ms Embleton or Mr. O'Neill can correct me if I am wrong, but I think Emerald Airlines has 12 routes out of Dublin and eight out of Belfast. It is performing strongly and, as I mentioned earlier, feeding our hub in Dublin and providing us with significant transatlantic traffic feed. It has made a good start and an early start, but it is its commercial decision as to where it-----
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