Originally Posted by
Indelaware
Nice to see a government with the brains to stand up to airline mergers - which always, IMO, harm the consumer - and have the stones to actually do it.
Except that this is actually a deal that is good for Ireland and good for the travelling public.
The government's misgivings come from their lack of "stones" - they fear being voted out of power, particularly the junior party's sitting candidates, whose seats are already all but lost, in constituencies with vocal Aer Lingus union groups.
And it's not a merger, per se - Aer Lingus would be run as a separate company, just as BA, Iberia and Vueling are run as separate companies.