Well if this is true, I think it's great news for both companies. Aer Lingus will finally have right size (and right cost) aircraft operating on regional routes there by freeing up it's A320's to allow them be deployed on the type of routes it was designed for and Aer Arann will have access to a much larger customer base, and, should there be a decent number of routes, they should have some protection from an FR on-slaught. Overall, good logical thinking in my opinion.