Taxpayer should not pay for airport flight of fancy
SFADCO are continuously at the centre of daft projects which have no chance of success. A more alarming aspect is the inevitable demand for taxpayers’ money to fund another one of their brainstorms. The inevitable outcome of their latest scheme would be to compel exporters and importers to use Shannon airport and the consequential higher costs would be borne by customers and, of course, by the State. The huge cost of maintaining a grossly inefficient Shannon airport seems to pass unnoticed.
It has fewer passengers than Cork airport, but has three times more staff. Who pays for this generosity? Knock airport is thriving and is now passing out Shannon for British passengers.
