Aer Lingus flight paths on way to market flotation

SOONER or later private investors will be able to get their hands on Aer Lingus shares.

All routes in the company's flight paths point clearly to a stock exchange float this year or in three to four years' time at the very least.

The end game for the process set in train by Aer Lingus chief executive Willie Walsh and executives Brian Dunne and Séamus Kearney, when they requested consent from the Department of Transport to allow them to develop "an investment proposal for the company," will certainly be the privatisation of Aer Lingus.