Aisling Meehan

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212 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 19 Jul

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Brendan O'Connor · The Newspaper Panel · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

But it's really about trying to secure future growth.

There's new aircraft and they're vying for it with competitors.

So they're trying to beat its sister airlines, Iberia and Lavelle.

There's 21 air buses that are on order.

And then...

So it's like it's trying to seek access to new markets.

They're talking about trying, you know, to get to South America and also to get to Africa.

So it's, you know, when you talk, they were talking about they're not hitting their targets at 12 to 15 percent.

Whereas like last year, I think there were 11.5 percent.

So they're not far off it.

And I think the sense from the articles was that,

They're kind of piggybacking on the current kind of economic crisis with the fuel crisis, et cetera, and saying, OK, we need to tighten our belts a bit here because of these external factors.

But in reality, what they're trying to do is slim it down in order to be in a better position to try and capitalise on, we'll say, the aircraft that are in order, et cetera, and trying to vie for them.

Yeah, no, and that's what's been said.

He's going to be a lot more charismatic.

And I think equally, he's going to look at it more domestically rather than internationally.

And that, we'll say Keir Starmer would acknowledge that, that maybe he took his eye off the ball.

And I suppose he's...

I suppose, like just, you know, I think there's the highest tax there since the post-war 50s and there's very little known about his views on tax spending and on growth.

But like you'd hope he'd abide by the fiscal rules and that he'd continue doing what the previous prime minister did, which is kind of seems to fly in the face of what a lot is in the papers today around taxation and it being a giveaway budget.

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