Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: Discussion (Resumed)
11:00 am
Mr. Kieran Donoghue:
I thank the Deputy for his question. If the regional airports, particularly Cork and Shannon, lost access to Heathrow, it would certainly have a negative impact on our ability to distribute foreign direct investment into the regions. Our existing clients use that infrastructure to access Heathrow and travel beyond the Heathrow hub. There would be a negative impact if that happened. The reality is that we do not know what is likely to happen.