Aer Lingus to go ahead with cost cutting plan; Lufthansa passenger numbers; Finnair down

European airline shares were mostly down on Tuesday (09-Mar-2010), despite a slip in oil prices (-0.5%), to USD81.49. Wider markets ended trading flat. City Index head of equities, Giles Watts, told AFP the markets were lower as investors “moved to scale down positions that had been built up over the last four weeks of equity gains”.