Corporate Head Office, Department Fax Numbers RYA Dublin Airport, =inance: 01 8121373 - County Dublin, Sales a Marketing: 01 8446625 THE 0 14! FA RE: A Ireland. :light Operations: 01 8444404 Telephone: +3531 8121212 Engineering: 01 8121338 General Fax: +353 1 8121213 Reservations: 01 6097902 Ftyanair Ltd. Sita: ouaHan Website: 15?? February, 2010 Ms Mary Coughlan TD Tanaiste and Minister for Enterprise Department of Enterprise, Trade Employment 22 Kildare Street Dublin 2 Dear Mary, Your fax letter of this afternoon refers. As you will be aware from my letter of earlier today, I have offered to :neet with you personally tomorrow to brief you on how I believe even at this late stage up to 300 maintenance jobs could be secured from Ryanair in the Hangar 6 facility at Dublin Airport. This clearly isn?t going to happen if it is delegated to the IDA or the BAA, since this failed miserably last September when Ryanair was offering 500 jobs in this facility. All that is necessary is for you, as Minister for Enterprise, to direct the Government owned DAA monopoly to sell Hangar 6 to Ryanair for the same arms-length price they paid to SRT for it last year. Ryanair will not negotiate directly with the DAA who are currently engaged in increasing our passenger charges by 40% (when inflation is negative) and more recently are trying to force our baggage handling staff to move accommodation as a subterfuge to increasing our rents by over 100%. It is extraordinary that the DAA monopoly is seeking to double rents for staff accommodation at a time when rents all over Dublin are declining by some 50%. We are at an advanced stage of negotiations with two other European airports/Governments to invest substantial funds in developing hangar facilities and creating up to 300 maintenance jobs at one of two other European locations. These jobs could be won by you for Dublin Airport if you would simply: a) Direct the BAA to sell Hangar 6 to us or lease it to us through the IDA. b) Relocate Aer Lingus? small line maintenance operation from Hangar 6 to one of the two empty hangars, both of which are capable of accommodating this line maintenance operation. c) This will result in Aer Lingus? 100 line maintenance jobs being preserved, but also Creating the space in Hangar 6 for Ryanair to transfer a lot of our heavy maintenance business and we could begin the process of creating up to 300 jobs for quali?ed aircraft engineers, many of whom are still drawing the dole as a result of your failure to take up our offer of 500 jobs in this facility last September. VAT. FIEG. NO. 4749148U Registered in lreland No. 104547 Instead of wasting time fobbing us off on the IDA or the BAA, why don?t you intervene in this personally, meet with me tomorrow and give us a commitment that the Government will do what is necessary to win thesejobs and this investment for Ireland. We tried to contact your Department today to see if our offer of a meeting tomorrow would be acceptable, but there is nobody in the office as the receptionist con?rmed that they were ?on strike?. Perhaps you would have somebody confirm with my office whether you would like to meet or not tomorrow. Yours sincerely