Member

If I may, I will write to the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh of Pickering, because I cannot answer her questions immediately, other than to say that flight cancellations have been trailed in the press. There have been some, but this is a way of making sure that airlines are better able to manage in these circumstances, when we do not yet know what will happen in the summer and into the winter. I have said that the Government believe that there is no current fuel shortage; that may change, but so may the international situation. It is sensible to take a view on this. I absolutely take the point that it may not suit passengers to have 14 days’ notice, but it would be better than them having virtually no notice.