Mr. Jason McGuinness:

My job as chief commercial officer is to plan the schedule. I did have those three aircraft planned. There were 16 routes due to land in Dublin this year. That was factually happening. There are routes we could add to Poland and to locations across the Balkans and across Scandinavia. We are also growing rapidly in Morocco at the moment. What sometimes gets missed in the debate here is that, post Covid, there is very strong competition for Ryanair capacity across Europe. Let us take this week for example. Europe is still not fully recovered when compared to how things operated in June 2019. There are 3% to 5% fewer flights across Europe this week than there were in 2019. Representatives of between ten and 12 airports and regional tourist bodies visit me in Dublin every week. There are two things they all do. They bring me growth proposals and they reduce costs for traffic. While I do not like saying it, they generally laugh at me when I tell them what is happening in Dublin, that is, that we have two runways and that I cannot add any capacity. After we announced two weeks ago that we could not add capacity, by the time I got back to the office I had missed calls from two airports, one in Poland and one in Italy, that wanted that capacity. Two weeks ago, I was in Katowice announcing a third aircraft, an aircraft that was meant to go in Dublin. That is a city of close to 2.5 million people but we only have three aircraft based there. It is an airport that plans to double capacity over the next four years. That is what is happening in the real world across Europe. Airports, governments and regional governments are competing aggressively for capacity because they know we cannot grow in Ireland. I am sorry to say it but they are laughing at us.