Travel chaos looms as air traffic controller talks fail

TALKS aimed at ending a dispute that yesterday threatened to cripple air travel at the country’s biggest airports broke down last night without agreement and the matter is now expected to be forwarded to the Labour Relations Commission.

Throughout the evening, representatives of the Irish Aviation Authority and the IMPACT trade union worked to thrash out a deal.

IMPACT was representing air traffic controllers who had introduced a ban on overtime at Dublin Airport in protest at recruitment levels.