Mr. Willie Walsh:

Let us take, for example, connecting to a transatlantic flight. Those flights typically arrive early in the morning. If people are to connect, they will want a departing flight that is ready to be boarded in order to go to the European destination. Such an aircraft would have to be on the ground at Shannon. To be there early in the morning, it would have to arrive either the night before or leave very early in the morning from its European destination. That would not make sense timing wise. If the aircraft has to be there the night before, it would start adding significant costs.