Subsidy urged for Cork to Dublin flights

The Government should consider subsidising the Cork-Dublin air route, the chairman of the DAA has suggested, adding that Cork Airport is at a disadvantage compared to other airports.

In the face of a 5.1% decline in passenger numbers at the country’s largest terminal last year, Pádraig Ó Ríordáin told the Oireachtas transport committee that Cork Airport needed the support of the entire region, there needed to be marketing support for airlines, and that there was a need to look at public service obligation support for the route between Cork and Dublin.

A flight service between the cities was axed by Ryanair in 2011.