Mr. Eddie Wilson:

I did most of the negotiation with the unions. What happened was everything and nothing changes. We have a particular business model and there was a certain kind of comment about what Ryanair was supposed to be doing or whatever but you cannot have $22 billion of aircraft arriving and not be paying people correctly and at the right pay to service those aircraft. We were doing all that right anyway. When we went through the negotiations with unions, gradually with those agreements that came in, people realised that if someone is a 737 pilot in Shannon and there is no one else in Shannon with a 737 and you can live two miles down the road, then you have the best job in aviation if you want to live in Shannon, Cork or Pescara or wherever. Equally, those people will know that you have to work the rosters that a low-cost airline works and have the sustainability in employment. Then gradually, common sense came through on that. We have largely the same agreement. We go through consultation pretty much in the same way. It has taken a lot more resources for us to get to the same end point because people have well-paid jobs, promotions, growth and they have a good chance, if we do not already have an airport in their backyard, that we will have one quite soon. It is one of the best jobs that you can have in aviation from an employment perspective.