Can you add a source please?
At the time, it held 15pc of the then 1.5 million annual passenger traffic between Dublin and Heathrow. Ironically, the airline had come under pressure after British Midland launched a service in 1988 between the two airports.
Given only three carriers flew the route and on was "British" Midland, were so many Irish reluctant to fly under a Union flag? What's the politics beyond the obvious? How did Midland succeed and BA do so badly against Aer Lingus, given a fair number of the travellers were presumably British?