Efforts to halt decline at Cork Airport

Cork Chamber is set to spearhead a renewed campaign to secure independent and debt-free status for struggling Cork Airport.

The business body, which has more than 1,000 members in the region, has secured a meeting with Transport Minister Paschal Donohue at which it will call for urgent government action to halt route losses and the alarming slide in passenger numbers.

Chamber president, Gillian Keating, said they would tell the minister that current government aviation policy was facilitating a situation where a debt-saddled Cork Airport, which is still under the control of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), is haemorrhaging routes to a debt-free independent Shannon.