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Old 22nd Jan 2013, 22:38
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Thank you dollar bill, beat me to it! In fact Aer Lingus is one of the few airlines in europe making profit on short haul (the very thing at stake) and given virtually everything they do originates in Ireland and they have fought back massively for the market share they now enjoy, its little wonder Ryanair want to take them over/wipe them out. If Aer Lingus is profiting and growing on its home turf and Ryanair has reduced its operations, I would question is their gain Ryanair's loss to some degree? The irony of it all is over the years Ryanair has rather noisily established itself as the the business that transformed Irish aviation and boosted passenger/tourist numbers in the process of tackling monopoly, now it wants to form its own. Nobody has managed to compete with them on Irish routes except Aer Lingus, despite no longer having state hand outs and now a much smaller concern.
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