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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Is Aer Lingus committed to selling Shannon to the American market? We often hear information, some of it anecdotal, that there tends to be pressure to push everything into the hub and to let the tourists figure out how they will get there. Does Aer Lingus have a good marketing strategy that takes the best of what we have in the Wild Atlantic Way and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Yes, and I thank Aer Lingus for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Does Ms Embleton think there is anything more we can do in the off-peak or shoulder period and further into the winter period? I acknowledge that airlines have to reduce their transatlantic business during that period because the demand is not there. Is there anything we could do in terms of our tourism offering during that period that would make that attractive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: What about the crew base?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: From a business perspective, is the fact that Aer Lingus does not have a crew base impacting the potential for more point-to-point business?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I thank the witnesses for their openness. I know that some issues are commercially sensitive and that they will not show me comparators for obvious reasons. However, we regularly hear from staff information, some of it anecdotal, that the cost of putting up staff who are dislocated from a base is significant versus having them located-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: I am only putting forward the caveat. Aer Lingus made a decision in 2007 to drop the Heathrow slots, and it was a commercial decision, notwithstanding others who believed otherwise. When Aer Lingus looked at it again, it was clear that things had changed and coming back was the right thing to do. Does Mr. Moriarty envisage the same thing happening with the crew base?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Some of us are still suffering-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: That is good. I just want to ask two final questions before I run out of time. The first relates to connectivity from Shannon to either Schipol or Frankfurt. If there is a continuation of that route incentive funding or intervention by the State, is that something Aer Lingus would consider? Would it be possible to make a business case for such connectivity, with the appropriate support...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Schipol, Frankfurt or Paris-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: Yes, it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: We are very thankful for that but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: To what document is the witness referring? Is that an internal document?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)
Timmy Dooley: It would be useful if the witness could provide the committee with a copy of this document.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)
Timmy Dooley: Like others, I welcome Mr. Jacobs, Mr. Harrison and Ms Gubbins and thank them for being with us. Their predecessors have been here in the past and I think they might have been here with Ryanair previously or certainly some of their representatives were. Their insight into the aviation sector will be helpful to the overall mix. Before I begin my questions, I will carry on from Senator...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)
Timmy Dooley: Does Mr. Jacobs not accept that having Dublin Airport as the parent, gives Cork Airport an unfair advantage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)
Timmy Dooley: I would not expect him to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)
Timmy Dooley: I want Cork Airport to work as well. I have family in Cork and we all want to see the regions work. However, Shannon Airport is being starved to some extent. Notwithstanding the wonderful work that Mary Considine and her team are doing there, it is always against a backdrop that a relatively small amount of the kind of business I talked about - the transit and cargo - would make such a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)
Timmy Dooley: From the perspective of Dublin Airport, would Mr. Jacobs be averse to accepting in a new paradigm that the bulk of cargo should be directed through a regional airport, other than that which would operate in the belly of-----