Dublin Airport had its busiest day ever in its 76-year history when more than 100,000 passengers travelled through the airport on June 24.

Immediate effect is less wealth, which will affect our ability to sell goods and services.

Passenger numbers for Dublin Airport are soaring, with bosses predicting this will be ‘a record-breaking year’ for the facility.

Labour TDs concerned about any sale of Aer Lingus have drafted a Labour Party motion for tomorrow calling for an independent valuation of the airline and for jobs to be protected.

THERE are strong indications that the Government will not sell the State’s 25.1% stake in Aer Lingus to International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG) even though the group, under former Aer Lingus chief executive Willie Walsh, has offered €1.36bn for the former national carrier.

THE DECISION by Aer Lingus to recommend acceptance of the latest offer for the company from International Airlines Group (IAG), the parent company of British Airways, puts the Government on the spot. Either it or Ryanair can effectively block the sale.

Figures released by the Irish Aviation Authority have revealed that while commercial terminal traffic for Shannon, Dublin and Cork airports for the period January to November 2014 was up by 6.2%, Cork Airport’s standalone figures are dropping compared to last year.

With less than 48 hours to go until strikes could bring the country’s main airports grinding to a halt, tens of thousands of intending passengers will only find out this afternoon whether an attempt to legally prevent the Siptu action has been successful.

The Dublin Airport Authority says it has been granted leave by the High Court to seek an injunction against SIPTU, to make it withdraw notice of strike action at Dublin and Cork airports next Friday.

Siptu will today count the ballot of its members in Aer Lingus to establish whether they, like their colleagues in the Dublin Airport Authority, are prepared to strike over the €800m hole in their pension scheme.

Ryanair has accused the EU of acting bizarrely and making decisions on a political and not a commercial basis.

The Dublin Airport Authority is flying is to introduce electric vans at Dublin and Cork airports.

As I was out of the country, I did not see the letter written by Finbarr Wright, concerning the lack of, or none, to be precise, air connections between Dublin and Cork Airports.

Dublin Airport Authority is to ask the High Court next Friday to restrain threatened industrial action by SIPTU that would effectively close down Dublin, Shannon and Cork airports.

Shannon Airport is doomed if it remains in public ownership and is not sold immediately to the highest bidder, Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary predicts.

DEPARTING chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), Declan Collier is resigning tomanage an airport where passenger levels were 12% of those at DAA airports last year.

THE Government is considering the option of handing over the running of loss-making Shannon Airport to a private operator in a concession arrangement, Transport Minister Leo Varadkar revealed yesterday.

PROPOSALS put forward by the Shannon Airport Authority to put the airport on a long-term lease to a private company came under fire yesterday.

Representatives of Cork Airport have said they are disappointed by Ryanair’s decision to end its Cork-Dublin service from October 30.

Ryanair is to cease its flights between Dublin and Kerry and between Dublin and Cork in the next two months.

IT is good news for the bank holiday as temperatures are set to rise as the weekend approaches.

CRIME gangs smuggling tonnes of illegal tobacco into the country are facing fines on average of just €527, shocking new figures have shown.

COMMUTER traffic was choked yesterday as stretched local authorities struggled to cope with the big freeze.

The recent closure of Irish and European airspace due to the Icelandic volcano cost airports in Ireland €8m, according to the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA).

Ryanair has confirmed that all flights are operating on schedule today.

The latest update from the Irish Aviation Authority says that Dublin and Cork Airports will now remain closed to commerical air traffic until at least 10pm tonight.

Irish airspace, with the exception of a block off the south coast, will continue to operate without restrictions, according to the Irish Aviation Authority.

Eason and Son bookstores have taken over the running of the Hughes & Hughes newsagents at Cork and Dublin airports.

EASON has taken over the bookshop licences at Dublin and Cork airports, vacated last week by Hughes & Hughes going into receivership.

Eason and Son has signed an agreement with the Dublin Airport Authority to take over the seven Hughes and Hughes outlets at Dublin and Cork Airports.

The DAA has reached a €38m cost-cutting deal with unions at the Labour Relations Commission that will see 450 jobs cut.

Aer Lingus bosses and unions meet for top-level talks today in a bid to avert next week’s planned strike action.

ARCTIC conditions brought a cold finish to the national holiday weekend as biting winds caused disruption to some travel arrangements and festivities.

Today is the final day for bids to buy the Great Southern Hotel Group.

A marketing campaign for the sale of Great Southern Hotels starts today with advertisements in the property sections of the national media and international press.

YOUR leader writer’s contention (Irish Examiner, April 11) that the chairman of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), Gary McGann, has “issued what amounts to an ultimatum” in saying that Cork airport’s independence would be in jeopardy ...

BOSSES at Cork Airport defended their controversial new €160 million terminal building yesterday following criticism from airport operators that the old building had better facilities and is more user-friendly.

MORE than one and a half million people were boarding trains, planes and automobiles as the annual exodus for Christmas began.

SENATOR Feargal Quinn recently informed his Seanad colleagues that autonomy for Cork and Shannon airports “will be singled out as one of the great follies of our time”.

Ireland’s largest union is attempting to run the country over the head of Government by halting all public transport on Thursday, a leading businessman claimed today.

THE Aer Rianta strike aimed at disrupting the visit of EU Justice Ministers here on Thursday is likely to go ahead unless workers get a firm commitment on job security today from Transport Minister Seamus Brennan.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has told the Dáil that gardaí are investigating how Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte got possession of a memo relating to the Government’s controversial plan to break Aer Rianta into three competing entities.

IT was called The Flying Dutchman and maybe its moniker was an omen. The original ship of that name was condemned to an eternity of spectral sailing after its captain cursed God and the devil for landing him in the eye of a storm.