Free Cork Airport from ‘dead hand’

There is an urgent need to free Cork Airport from the dead hand of Dublin.

So what’s happening at Cork Airport? Passenger numbers are down and still heading south. Dublin on the other hand is growing. More interestingly, Shannon Airport is also booming.

It’s a bit of a turnaround. Over the last decade traffic through Shannon had been decreasing given the changing nature of air travel and the advent of really long single-leg flights. It was losing flights and destinations and was in real bother. It was felt at times that without the support of the US troop transporters making stop-offs at Shannon the airport would be on its knees.