IWHAK "Did FR apply for NOC, because if not it is my understanding that it must be offered to the other tenderers in turn"
MO'L claims to have applied after Cityjet declined the route.
Extract from his presentation to the Joint Committe on Transport:
Mr. Michael O’Leary: We wrote to the Department of Transport in recent days because we understand that whoever won the Dublin-Knock tender will not now operate the route. We have again stepped into the breach to rescue the regions of Ireland by informing the Department of Transport that we will operate the Dublin-Knock route, but as a mid-day service. If the Department wants it, it can have it.