Mr. Willie Walsh:

We need to move to a fully-integrated sky over Europe. We did it during the depths of the pandemic when there were so few aircraft in the air. In effect, a flight takes the most efficient route available to it. The technology exists there. If you fly to Heathrow, you are flying exactly the way we flew when I started flying a 737 back in 1980. You go across the Irish Sea to Liverpool, turn right, go down over Birmingham and continue down towards London, instead of flying directly from Dublin to London. Instead, you would take a direct line, depending on the weather conditions. We are flying pathways developed 50 years ago when aircraft were dependent on ground-based navigation that we do not require anymore.