What’s another year?

The opening of Terminal 2 failed to lift spirits, says Scott Millar.

RYANAIR has announced it is cutting back on flights out of Dublin Airport, including a 50% reduction in its daily services to Cork from next year.

Limerick: Chairman of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) David Dilger will address the Limerick Chamber Christmas lunch at the Carlton Castletroy Park on Friday.

I CAN’T but comment on the DDA’s stunning new ad listing all the “wonderful” things from and about us Irish and the island of Ireland.

SHANNON airport is operating with both hands behind its back and in the impossible situation of having to compete against its employer, the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), and the newly opened T2.

THE Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) yesterday confirmed that Shannon Airport’s head of finance and corporate affairs, Mary Considine is to assume the role of airport director next month.

THE chairman of the Shannon Airport Authority Brian O’Connell confirmed Shannon is abandoning its low-cost model, stating that it is unsustainable.

THE truth and Ryanair are “uncomfortable bedfellows” in light of the latter’s conduct in challenging proposed new charges at Dublin Airport for the five years up to 2014, a High Court judge said yesterday.

RYANAIR is shedding almost two-thirds of its capacity at Shannon this winter, and is also cutting flights at Cork and Dublin.

RYANAIR is shedding almost two-thirds of its capacity at Shannon this winter and cutting flights at Cork by 17% and by 15% at Dublin.

DUBLIN Airport is in advanced talks with Air India in a bid to become the airline’s European hub, which could see more transatlantic flights from Ireland.

EFFORTS by Shannon Airport to secure a replacement airline to take over the successful Shannon to Paris route, which will be axed by Ryanair in November, have been dealt a severe blow with two more operators confirming they have no plans to take up the service.

RYANAIR has announced that it has taken on Edelman as its external public relations/media communications adviser, after what it called “a very competitive tender process”.

SIPTU has told Aer Lingus it will have to bear any costs to the union’s members if the company’s 2008 “leave and return” scheme is found to be flawed.

SHANNON Airport Authority chairman Brian O’Connell is set to make his first comprehensive public statement on the future of the airport today.

RYANAIR has accused the Government of failing to act to save the airline’s Kerry-Dublin service because it favours the semi-state companies to private sector organisations.

Dublin: Ryanair has welcomed calls from the ESRI for the “introduction of terminal competition at Dublin Airport”, where the two terminals are sold off to different competing owners, in a move that would mirror the British ruling that the BAA monopoly of London’s airports should be broken up to promote competition and a better deal for passengers.

PASSENGER charges will increase next month at Dublin Airport as the country’s three biggest airports take a hit of €8 million from the volcanic ash crisis as 3,200 flights were cancelled.

THE IDA has been accused of “de-emphasising” the importance of Cork and Dublin as locations for foreign direct investment.