But EI never referred to AerSpace as a "business cabin" or a "business offering".
Nothing in that statement represents any change from the originally-disclosed details about AerSpace. His comments just illustrate to an IAG audience that it is not going to be an Aer Lingus version of "Club Europe", which most of that audience would imagine, when hearing the term "business class" in relation to shorthaul. (That said, the only real difference between Club Europe and AerSpace would appear to be just a curtain)