Cork Airport debt - Government must honour promise

GOVERNMENT balking on a cut-and-dried promise it had made in relation to Cork Airport’s debt-free status is palpably jeopardising the economic welfare of the city and the wider Munster region.

If there were any doubt that the U-turn it is now executing would not cost the region economically, then the proof can be evinced in yesterday’s decision by Ryanair.

The airline’s decision to reduce its service between Cork and Liverpool from seven to four flights each week is because of higher cost increases imposed in Cork directly because of the debt.