We have to learn to co-exist with coronavirus, says Cork Airport chief

After seeing passenger numbers decline by 90%, Niall MacCarthy says that Cork Airport needs the kind of supports that have been granted to other regional airports.

Niall McCarthy, managing director of Cork Airport, says that the Government to sign up to the EU common travel framework.

The head of Cork Airport has warned that Ireland’s “economy and people can’t stay cut off from the rest of the world for two years” as the country adjusts to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Managing director Niall MacCarthy was speaking as junior transport minister Hildegarde Naughton hinted that further supports for Irish airports could be on the way.