Airport optimistic on future

WATERFORD AIRPORT is meeting the challenges of a more competitive environment and its daily throughput of passengers is very much in line with its revised forecast for 2009, according to airport chief executive, Graham Doyle.

The airport recorded a 25% increase in passengers using the facility in 2008. And though the year ahead will be far more challenging, the airport is keeping a very close eye on costs and competitiveness and continues to offer an even better, tailored and hands-on service to its passengers, Mr Doyle said.

He said numbers are holding up despite some re-structuring of routes.