Mr. Michael O'Leary:

There is a great danger there in going back to 1960s thinking, which was all about hub airports and connecting flights. There is very little future for Irish regional airports in connecting flights and connecting to hub airports. We have moved beyond that. That was the Shannon stopover mentality of the 1950s and 1960s. People want to fly direct. Mr. Wilson and the team are working very closely with Mary Considine and her team to develop more direct flights and get incentives agreed so we can put more flights in. Even if they are only summer flights, summer flights, generally speaking, lead to more winter flights. We are desperately trying to grow that. In fact, we put some inbound services back into Shannon this winter as well. It is one of the great successes of the mid west. I will give one example. The dollar is incredibly strong at the moment. I brought my kids to Rome for the school midterm in October. You could not get in or out of Rome with the number of Americans wandering around. The dollar is very strong and American transatlantic traffic is phenomenally strong. Huge volumes of Americans are now coming to Dublin. They play golf in Portmarnock and then they head off down to the jewels of Adare, Lahinch, Ballybunion-----