Conditions set for airports’ independence

YOUR leader writer’s contention (Irish Examiner, April 11) that the chairman of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), Gary McGann, has “issued what amounts to an ultimatum” in saying that Cork airport’s independence would be in jeopardy ...

... if the Cork Airport Authority (CAA) failed to pay the debt relating to the recent investment in facilities there misinterprets what he actually said.

Mr McGann stressed the DAA was fully committed to the implementation of the State Airports’ Act 2004, whose principal objective is the establishment, subject to certain preconditions, of separate and stand-alone airports at Dublin, Shannon and Cork.