LISTEN: Middle East disruption – Eoghan Corry on RTE News

On the RTE news, Eoghan Corry told listeners: over a thousand passengers a day at this time of the year transferring through those three key airports from Dublin flights. There were a couple of repositioning flights this morning. EY67 to London and eight flights since then. But it’s only a small part of the recovery because not only have we the transfer passengers uh that were stranded in the Middle East, but also we have a lot of people looking at their tickets this week. to Australia, it’s the stop off of choice is those three airports and places like the Philippines, India. The volume of passengers makes it very difficult to do a to reaccommodate everyone. The word for passengers is that it is NOT their problem. There are people talking about taking drives to Oman and try and get home that way. All of those routes are saturated. The airline is under contract to get you exactly to where you are and they will honour that contract. They’re very good at recovery. The question is when will they be allowed to commence that recovery.