Cork and Dublin ‘may suffer fate of Shannon’

SIPTU has issued a warning to business interests in Cork and Dublin that the Heathrow slots from their airports could suffer the same fate as those from Shannon.

“Management have already said the best return on the Heathrow slots is long haul,” said Willie Lynes of the union’s Aer Lingus branch speaking at an emergency motion at SIPTU’s biennial delegate conference in Tralee.

“We expect the next attack will be on the Dublin and Cork slots. We have a message for the chambers of commerce in Cork and Dublin. ‘Are you listening?’.”