Cork-bound jet diverted to Dublin over lack of aircraft stairs

A plane full of holidaymakers was diverted to Dublin Airport because the ground handling operation at Cork Airport didn’t have an aircraft stairs tall enough to cope with the aircraft.

The Irish Examiner has established that the issue arose earlier on Monday when the crew of a chartered Boeing 737, who were due to fly passengers from Cork to Reus, near Barcelona, were found to be ‘out of hours’ after landing in Bulgaria.

A charter company then had to scramble to find a replacement aircraft — the only one available was a widebody Boeing 767 in Dublin.