And given that Aer Lingus has already been through a significant restructuring and is making money, any efficiency drive (and IAG's chief executive, Willie Walsh, is famous for them) will be limited.
The commission's decision was expected to revive a 2012 inquiry by a British competition watchdog into whether Ryanair's stake in Aer Lingus gave it unfair influence over Aer Lingus's business and strategy.
Thus, given the same AER, the absolute number of second cancers after BCIS will be considerably smaller than that after invasive breast cancer at the population level.
This may better reflect the final outcomes compared with AER but might not give enough information at the early stages of DN.
In Table 5, we examine further the results for the main diagnostic groups, giving SIRs and AERs by age and sex for the heritable cases only.
In the present model, we assume that the position and the size of AER are given in advance: NAER consecutive E-nodes are AER.
The apparent newfound stability at Iberia, steady profits at BA, the addition of Vueling – as well as the potential acquisition of Aer Lingus to secure more lucrative transatlantic business – give the group a solid look and have quietened for now the sceptics of the consolidation strategy.
But European Union rules now strictly limit the financial aid that national governments can give airlines, even state-owned ones, and the government minister who oversees Aer Lingus lost her seat in Parliament in the election two weeks ago; her successor will not be appointed for at least another week.
Further complicating Ryanair's bid is a separate investigation by British competition regulators into whether Ryanair's substantial minority stake in Aer Lingus gives it undue influence over the airline's business and strategy.
Analysts said they were puzzled by the move, a week after British competition regulators said they would investigate whether Ryanair's substantial minority stake in Aer Lingus gave it undue influence over the airline's business and strategy.
