Cork Airport needs access to state funding for Regional Airports - daa

'In football terms, we hauled ourselves into the Premiership over the last two to three years, but we’ve just been relegated again.'

Cork Airport is facing into losses of €20 million this year

Cork Airport should have access to the Regional Airport OpEx and Capital Funding Programmes, the Oireachtas Transport Committee has heard.

Speaking to the Transport Committee this morning, Dalton Philips, CEO of daa, which owns and operates Cork Airport, said the airport was Ireland’s fastest-growing airport in 2019 and was on course to be so again in 2020.