Mr. Eddie Wilson:

We are not going to be flying intercontinental. What I can say, going back to the Dutch issue of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, is that Rotterdam is in no way constrained. Rotterdam did 15 flights yesterday. Shannon did 22 flights. Beware of what the Dutch say. Amsterdam was probably the worst run in Europe in the Covid crisis. Having been there recently, I could not get a cup of coffee in the airport after 9 p.m. They are not the people to talk to in terms of having an aviation policy. We have to get away from this thing of aviation being discretionary travel. This is not just in Ireland. It is in Italy, Greece and Spain. Small and medium size businesses, people visiting friends and relatives and the Erasmus programme are all essential parts of aviation within Europe now. It is not all about tourism. However, it is particularly about tourism in some of the island economies like Ireland because that is where we get our employment.