Cork Airport calls crisis meeting after Ryanair withdrawal threat

Wave of calls from TDs, airports, travel agents, and business leaders to ease restrictions

Cork Airport: Travel restrictions are costing the State’s two biggest airports around €1m a day. Picture: Dan Linehan

The Government is under mounting pressure to lift coronavirus air travel restrictions which have crippled the aviation and tourism industry and which are costing the State’s two biggest airports around €1m a day.

It faced a wave of calls yesterday from TDs, airports and travel agents, as well as from business leaders in the south and west, for an easing of restrictions to facilitate international air travel ahead of today’s meeting of the cabinet’s Covid-19 sub-committee today.