'Recovery of aviation by 2023 too optimistic'

Chair of the DAA says hubs, airports, and low-cost airlines will recover sooner

Basil Geoghegan said traffic levels were back at 50% of pre-Covid levels. 

The chairman of the Dublin Airport Authority, which operates Cork and Dublin airports, has told an Oireachtas committee that forecasts of recovery in the aviation sector by 2023 are too optimistic.

Speaking before the transport and communications committee, Basil Geoghegan, who has been reappointed as chair of the State airport operator, said 2025 was a more realistic forecast but said large hub airports and low-cost airlines would recover quickest.