269In relation to the impact of scheduled airlines or charter airlines having an aircraft parked overnight at Dublin for a season or throughout the year (see paragraphs 256 and 257 above), the Commission rightly noted in the contested decision that the advantages which those companies enjoy were not comparable to those inherent in operating a base, in particular as regards the flexibility of switching between routes, redeployment of aircraft, minimising disruption costs, exchange of crews, customer care and brand awareness (recital 560). It is those advantages of operating a base which are important in this case and not the possibility of offering flights to any particular destination by operating an aircraft.
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