Workers ‘could help make Shannon a viable airport’

THE Shannon Airport Authority is missing out on a huge opportunity to tap into innovative proposals which would help make the airport more commercially viable, a union leader said yesterday.

Shannon SIPTU branch president and former Aer Rianta director Pat Fitzgerald said the new Shannon Airport Authority (SAA) had chosen to exclude airport workers while drawing up its business plan for the Transport Minister.

Workers, he said, do not live with their heads in the sand and were aware that you need to generate enough money to sustain a job. He said workers have very positive, realistic proposals which the plan would benefit from.