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Kevin Byrne

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The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

And it had to be done.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

But the add-on things, you see, that has been a problem for the consumer people in the EU, so to speak.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

They said it's not very fair.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

You should buy, you know, you should go back to the old days in some respects.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

And they've removed, you know, the requirements to pay for that.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

So it's all to do, though, with low fares.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

We've been very lucky, as Boric has said.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

We've really stabilized the fees.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

And we're getting extremely good value compared to what we got, say, 25 years ago even.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

And there's a whole host of new routes that wouldn't be there if it were not for the low-cost carriers.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

So we have really a lot to be thankful for, both in terms of the airline service and in the EU looking after our consumer rights.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

They get used to it very quickly.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

That's the one thing about aviation, that once they know the price and they go online, people are very savvy now, travellers, because they pick and choose what they want to do, where they want to go.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

And every day there's 12,000 flights over Western Europe, which is an enormous number of people like that.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

The demand to go flying is bigger than ever, Claire, despite the price of aviation fuel, although that should go down now very shortly, we'd hope.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

But there's going to be a huge demand.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

And when they go online, they will get used to it.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

So the price may go up on paper for a while, but I think people will get used to it, as Partaker said.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

We'll get used to it very quickly.

The Claire Byrne Show
The EU’s air passenger rights reform deal

By six months in the middle of 2027, whenever this comes in,