Buttimer hits out at airport chief delay

THE Government has been criticised for delays in appointing a new chairman of the Cork Airport Authority (CAA).

Fine Gael senator Jerry Buttimer said the fact that the CAA still has no chairman three months after the resignation of former chairman Joe Gantly is hampering the airport’s ability to capitalise on record passenger figures published yesterday.

Passenger throughput at the airport reached 2.6 million for the first nine months of the year — a 5% increase over the same period last year.