The figure of half the world’s aircraft being managed sounds about right.
It might have something to do with a major puzzle from last year’s economic figures.
We’ve all been told, repeatedly, that Ireland ‘returned to growth’ last year at both GNP and GDP levels.
However, when you look at the CSO’s figures for last year you a huge surge in both GDP and GNP in the second quarter of last year. I think it’s something of the order of 5% in both in that quarter alone.
In the following two quarters the economy was actually in recession but over the course of 2012 the ‘performance’ in Q2 gave an overall positive growth figure.
I’ve seen it somewhere, I can’t recall where, that a aircraft servicing company based in Ireland can if they bought or sold a couple of airliners have a huge impact on both the ‘exports’ from this economy and, consequently, on the GNP and GDP figures.
It’s a hunch I have but I suspect that the crowing about degree to which Ireland is a player in aircraft management is just another despicable cover for tax evasion and/or avoidance.
Shatter, if he’d already exist he’d have to be invented: wants to ‘demilitarise’ 1916 and allow the RAF free access to the skies over Dublin.