asked the Minister for Transport if he will outline the employment pattern between airline and ancillary activities in Aer Lingus.
Written Answers. - Aer Lingus Employment.
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A total of 6,800 people were employed directly by Aer Lingus on 1 January 1980. Many of these have varying degrees of involvement in ancillary activities in addition to air transport activities. The company's maintenance personnel, for example, are also involved in the maintenance of aircraft for other airlines as an ancillary activity, but none of this staff could be regarded as being devoted solely to ancillary activities. Taking the amount of work in each area of the company's operations devoted to ancillary activities and applying this figure to the work force in the area concerned, Aer Lingus estimate at 1,600 the number of their staff involved in ancillary activities.
The above figures do not include personnel recruited and employed by wholly-owned subsidiaries of Aer Lingus at home and abroad. There were approximately 7,080 persons in these enterprises on 1 January 1980, 240 at home and 6,840 abroad.