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I welcome very much the change in the number of movements that will now be the basis of giving new entrants slots. Of course, there is an issue regarding the viability of routes. Five was unacceptable because, for the way in which airlines work out their economic viability, it matters to have routes that actually go to and come back from places, but they also have to be sufficient to make it worth while. I welcome this very much; indeed, I probably would have liked it to have been a bit more extensive, to benefit smaller airline operations, which are trying to get under way and compete with the big boys that seem to have the whole industry under their control.