Drop in passenger numbers at Kerry Airport

KERRY Airport had a 6% drop in out-going passengers for the eight months to the end of June, the company’s chairman Denis Cregan told its annual general meeting yesterday.

As the effects of the recession become apparent, he said the company was about 11% down on budget expectations but still in a reasonably healthy state.

“The storm clouds are gathering and I would not like to see passenger numbers deteriorate much more,” Mr Cregan cautioned, but he was confident the airport would by the end of the year exceed last year’s operating profit.