Mr. Willie Walsh:

Not an international one; it is domestic. The challenge is that if a PSO is issued to connect to another hub, you have to ask what it means for the service you have for Heathrow. Would Aer Lingus say it is fine? If providing funding to take traffic that would have flown over Heathrow over Amsterdam, would Aer Lingus continue to operate? It would not. That is why we need to be crystal clear about what we are trying to achieve. It may be that an increased number of connections to hub airports are needed, because there is an opportunity to grow the overall traffic rather than transfer it from one hub airport to another.