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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: 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.
- 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: Therefore, what model would attract your members to come into Shannon Airport?
- 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: What would be the attractiveness for your members?
- 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: Would you ever see an airport such as Shannon Airport, with its excess capacity, being able to fulfil a hub role?
- 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: However, if we as politicians for our areas, in the context of balanced regional development, see a huge over-concentration in one airport on the eastern seaboard, we will speak about it and be serious about it. Surely, on an island as small as Ireland, a way must be found to rebalance all forms of travel and infrastructure along the western seaboard. Part of that must include aviation.
- 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 for him to come in.
- 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 going to Schiphol tomorrow as part of our review. We in the region believe we need European hub connectivity and, obviously, we have a journey to go on in that regard. I can agree to disagree with Mr. Walsh. Shannon and the region have this ambition. If we did not, we would not get to that endpoint.
- 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: Shannon could have a direct flight to Amsterdam with KLM. It could have a role where it becomes a major feeder to a hub.
- 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 may be at cross purposes. Our view in the region is that we want a connection into the likes of Schiphol or Frankfurt. The question is how we encourage the airlines to provide flights that link to the major hub from the start.
- 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 a discussion we will obviously have. I thank Mr. Walsh for his contribution. I now call Deputy Ó Murchú.
- 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: Transparency on its own merits.
- 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 Shannon Airport was built at a time when we had the Shannon stopover.