Airport board faces business plan crux

THE main challenge facing the new Cork Airport designate-board appointed by Transport Minister Seamus Brennan yesterday will be to deliver a business plan showing how the major €153 million development can be funded.

The seven new directors appointed by the minister have a broad range of business and financial experience and several of them work in export businesses.

Four worker directors will be appointed by the trade unions to complete the 12-member board before next April when the new board takes over full running of the airport.