DAA urges T2 planning decision

DUBLIN Airport Authority (DAA) has warned it could miss its target of having a new terminal built by the summer of 2009 if it does not get final planning permission by the end of the month.

Fingal County Council approved the €1.2 billion expansion of the airport in October last year but an appeal to An Bord Pleanála by Ryanair and local residents has held up the beginning of construction.

An oral hearing by the board concluded several weeks ago and the DAA said yesterday that T2, as the new terminal has been called, needed the go-ahead as soon as possible.