Cork County Council hopes to co-ordinate a major push to convince the transport minister and Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) to cut a deal with Cork Airport on its likely independence and to ease crippling debt.

Dublin Airport Authority has given more than 1,000 of its staff until March 15 to accept a lump sum payment after their defined benefit scheme was frozen at the end of last year.

Cork and Shannon airports suffered significant declines in their traffic movements last month, with Cork now down almost 12% this year compared to the first four months of 2014.

A topic of debate in this column and in other circles over the past year has been the performance of Cork Airport. 

Dublin Airport Authority has claimed a decision of the regulator related to airport charges will adversely impact its plans for a major commercial initiative known as the Dublin Airport City development.

More than 60 former aviation workers who face a cut of up to 60% to their pension entitlements yesterday staged a protest at Dublin Airport.

CORK AIRPORT should remain under the same ownership as Dublin, with Shannon Airport to be run as a separate, more business-orientated entity managed by local bodies.

THE removal of Shannon Airport from the control of the Dublin Airport Authority would allow the mid-west airport to finally realise its potential, it was claimed last night.

TALKS are to begin next week on ways to address the rapidly escalating deficit in the pension scheme for the Dublin Airport Authority and Aer Lingus workers, now reportedly in the red by up to €600 million.

RYANAIR chief executive Michael O’Leary has criticised the Department of Transport’s choices for new executives at Dublin Airport Authority and Tourism Ireland.

DEPARTING chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), Declan Collier is resigning tomanage an airport where passenger levels were 12% of those at DAA airports last year.

Change is needed to make the best of Cork Airport, writes Cork Chamber president John Mullins

A HIGH Court judge has refused, on condition of Ryanair’s consent to provide certain undertakings, to grant an injunction restraining the airline allegedly intimidating agency staff selling rail tickets for London at Dublin Airport on behalf of a British company.

THE Government is considering the option of handing over the running of loss-making Shannon Airport to a private operator in a concession arrangement, Transport Minister Leo Varadkar revealed yesterday.

THE chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority was recently appointed chief executive of London City Airport.

A MAJOR shake-up is expected at Cork and Shannon airports as the Government drafts in top consultants to look at their futures.

PRE-TAX profits at the overseas duty-free operator owned by the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) last year plummeted by 87% to €3 million.

IT was reported recently that Stephen McNamara, Ryanair head of communications, was left to do what our Munster representatives were seemingly not interested in doing, and that was to enquire about the traffic figures for Shannon and Cork from the DAA.

MERRION Stockbrokers has upped its 12-month share price target for Aer Lingus; noting that solving its €500 million pension deficit problem could be the key to creating stock value.

A COMPANY licensed by the Dublin Airport Authority to sell London rail tickets from kiosks at Dublin Airport has claimed its business there is “close to collapse” due to an orchestrated campaign of harassment, bullying and obstruction of its staff by Ryanair and its agents.