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The noble Baroness, Lady Grender, raised a question about whether some groups of passengers will be more affected by this than others. We do not have any current evidence that that is the case, but one can clearly envisage that this might affect some more than others. The argument for doing it is to give some certainty in advance, rather than find last-minute cancellations. We know that airlines are keen on keeping their slots; they work very hard to make sure of that. We do not want short-term bad effects on passengers and airline schedules and, thereafter, people making up their 80% with flights that are near empty in order to keep the slots that they would otherwise lose.