O'Leary: New Dublin terminal will double passenger charges

Ryanair confirmed today that it will continue to oppose the €609m second terminal proposed by the DAA monopoly at Dublin Airport.

The airline claims that it costs 10 times more than similar sized facilities being provided at other airports in Europe and will lead to passenger charges doubling at Dublin Airport.

"It is vital that the mess which the DAA have created at Cork Airport is not repeated at Dublin," said Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary.

"In Cork, the DAA wasted €200m building a new terminal for just 3m passengers. This was 10 times more than the €20m which Cork’s terminal should have cost. Now Cork Airport is stuck with a €200m debt, which it can never repay."

"Cork airport’s terminal proves yet again that the DAA monopoly cannot be trusted to build cost efficient terminal facilities. It also proves that the Aviation Regulator is hopelessly unable to control the DAA monopoly. He’s just a poodle, who rolls over every time the DAA wants to put up charges.

"Ryanair supports, and will happily pay for low cost, efficient facilities. We have already offered to build and pay for an independent second terminal at Dublin Airport.

"The fact that a 15 million passenger terminal can be built in Frankfurt for €60m, proves that we are right and we will continue to oppose the DAA spending over ten times this amount - €609m - on a similar 15 million passenger facility. "