Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

This can happen very quickly. It needs to happen at a Brussels level and overflights need to be allowed. What usually happens is, for example, French or Catalonian air traffic control or air traffic control in certain parts of Germany have staffing issues and regular strikes. That results in everybody having to deviate their flight paths. This means that for people flying Dublin-Faro on their holidays, the plane has to take a longer route to get there. That is how it works. We would ask the committee to put pressure that there is a real conversation. Every airline and IATA will state the same. We would like there to be a conversation in Brussels that this can happen and that overflights are allowed. Overflights would mean that if there are air traffic control restrictions in France because there is an air traffic control strike, that is a domestic issue within France, however, if a person is flying from Dublin to northern Italy on their holidays, that overflights are allowed and they can go through French airspace without being disrupted.