The executive chairman says Dublin Airport Authority has withdrawn a €35m restructuring deal for Shannon Airport, after it was rejected by unions.

A SIPTU representative on the newly-established Dublin Airport Authority has reportedly resigned in protest at a recent deal reached between Ryanair and the independent Shannon Airport Authority.

CORK Airport’s new multi-million passenger terminal is likely to miss its May 10 opening date and instead open in the hectic summer season.

The operator of Cork and Dublin Airports has hit back at claims by an airline organisation that passengers across Europe are being “denied the full benefits of air travel” due to airport charges.

The Dublin Airport Authority will today seek to legally prevent Friday’s four-hour closure of the country’s main airports — and the likely disruption to tens of thousands of passengers — through strike action by members of Siptu.

Siptu is to seek legal advice on how it can press ahead with strikes at the country’s airports in the event that the ongoing pensions dispute remains unresolved.

The DAA is currently looking for a delivery company to test the plan, which would allow passengers to securely leave their luggage at different points in the city.

A meeting between representatives of taxi drivers and officials from Dublin Airport Authority has failed to resolve a two day strike by drivers at the Airport.

THE Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) and global air cargo company Lynxs are to sign a heads of agreement today concerning a proposed €12 million international air cargo hub being established at Shannon Airport.

SIPTU members working for the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) have put forward proposals which could allow the authority to at least partly realise its aim of introducing €40 million in cost savings.

BUSINESSMAN Ulick McEvaddy said yesterday he is confident that the Competition Authority will allow him access to Dublin Airport runway, clearing the way for him to build a third terminal there.

Siptu is planning a “relentless series of industrial action running through the summer and right into the autumn” at both Dublin Airport Authority and Aer Lingus, if there is no resolution to a three-year pensions dispute.

TRANSPORT Minister Leo Varadkar was last night accused of making the boards of Cork and Shannon airports redundant.

AN emergency meeting between Transport Minister Martin Cullen and the Cork Airport Authority (CAA) on the subject of the airport's €80 million debt was described last night as having been very positive.