Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

It is very important that everybody hears this message: everybody will get home for Christmas. I know there was some excitement that flights would be cancelled. Ryanair and all the airlines have been told that what they had last winter they will keep this winter.

The historic slots will continue in the winter of 2024, so no one needs to worry about not being able to get home at Christmas. The airlines will not get everything new they are looking for, but everything they had, they will keep. Will there be a fall guy coming to the end of the year? Let us wait and see and see what the number looks like. I am concerned now because there is great demand from the airlines. We are tracking ahead of it. IAA governs the slots and that is what determines the passenger numbers. Different airlines might do different things. Ryanair has already said publicly that it will not be adding aircraft in Dublin. That is because it cannot get them into get new slots. Aer Lingus is, unfortunately, looking at some potential strikes. That might take passengers away. However, I am concerned we will be forced into a breach because too many airlines want too many slots. In global aviation, the world does not understand why there is a passenger cap in Dublin Airport because there generally are not caps elsewhere in the world. Airlines now want to pile into Dublin because it is a good place to be, the charges are low and they know it will be capped for a number of years.