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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We are looking at 36% now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is still of the order of 2.5 times-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Where does Mr. Walsh see that going? How will it feed it into the price for consumers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Walsh is as good an expert on this area as anyone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: At a fixed price.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When does Mr. Walsh anticipate we will see increases in the cost as-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is very high.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When will most of Mr. Walsh's members coming off hedging? When will they come off fixed price?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Walsh anticipate that next year they will be into a variable market, an open market in terms of price-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are they able to do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Have most of his members hedged for next year as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. Walsh expect there will be a significant increase in the cost for passengers flying next year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will Mr. Walsh give us an indication of what he believes that minimum increase would be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Walsh will appreciate that I am a Deputy for Limerick City and Limerick west, including Shannon Airport. I want to pick up on his observation that where there are airports that are dominant, a lack of competition must have good regulation. Ireland is a small island. We are not that unlike Holland in one sense. We are going over to Schiphol tomorrow. It diverts flights to Rotterdam....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The question is what if Shannon had a European hub. Mr. Walsh spoke about charges and if there were supports on a route for a period, which is allowed under European Commission rules if the passenger numbers are less than 3 million. He will be aware of that. Will airlines use Shannon as a hub? Hypothetically speaking, let us say we had a link to Frankfurt or Schiphol. Would airlines look...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why does Mr. Walsh dismiss the hub outright?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: How many of the passengers on a typical flight to, say, Schiphol or Dublin, would be people from Ireland? What percentage would be connecting flights from elsewhere?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That means that departing flights could have 70% connecting passengers coming in from other airports.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Do you think that cannot happen at Shannon?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is a volume game.