Cork-bound jet diverted to Dublin over lack of aircraft stairs

A plane full of holidaymakers was diverted to Dublin Airport because the ground handling operation at Cork Airport didn’t have an aircraft stairs tall enough to cope with the aircraft.

Cork-bound jet diverted to Dublin over lack of aircraft stairs

The Irish Examiner has established that the issue arose earlier on Monday when the crew of a chartered Boeing 737, who were due to fly passengers from Cork to Reus, near Barcelona, were found to be ‘out of hours’ after landing in Bulgaria.

A charter company then had to scramble to find a replacement aircraft — the only one available was a widebody Boeing 767 in Dublin.

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