Mr. Philip Hughes:

I would not start from here as the Kerry farmer would say. We have to look at how can we get over this fragmentation issue. That is an institutional and political issue. This comes back to the then Minister, Deputy Chambers's statement, which he made earlier in the year, when they rolled out the latest version of the Single European Sky. The level of ambition needs to increase and the airlines are correct in the sense that what they see as a fragmented service where you get different levels of services depending on where you go. If you are going from Ireland, you get really good service here with AirNav because you have free route airspace and you can get out. You then come to certain places and there are blockages. That is where they find the whole thing frustrating.

It is a network, which is the point. We need to think as a network if we are going to deal with these traffic constraints. As Napoleon said, you march at the speed of the slowest soldier. We need to get everybody's level up to make sure that performance is consistent.