Airport facilities haven’t matched growing traffic

CORK airport’s growth has been stunted for so long we must show thanks when Michael Cawley of Ryanair comes out in its support in relation to the negotiations on the financial crisis arising from the new terminal building (letters, February 17).

Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) would hardly retain its business interests at Birmingham and Dusseldorf airports if they weren’t lucrative. This makes sense and helps out in other under-performing areas of the DAA, while Ryanair has received significant marketing supports from Shannon to help launch new routes over the last year. Such supports are not found under a tree, so I reckon the DAA needs to hang on to as many shops as it can.

The former Aer Rianta - not Cork Airport Authority - commissioned a new terminal for Cork and former Transport Minister Seamus Brennan said Cork should be debt-free when the three airports were separated. This project has been an exercise in catch-up.