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
Ms Lynne Embleton:
That is generally. In some airports actually, for example, Munich, it could be much higher so that 80% could be connecting in some hubs. On short haul, because of the difference in numbers and aircraft, between 10% and 20% of the customers on that flight will typically be connecting. It requires a significant local demand for short haul to fill enough with point-to-point passengers and this number is topped up with transfer passengers. These transfer passengers are gathered up from all the different routes and that helps to justify a new long-haul service. The hub dynamics are really quite exponential.
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