THE prospect of establishing a cargo hub at Shannon Airport has received a massive boost.

SHANNON Airport has turned a corner and is expected to break even next year.

PADDY Power is committed to job creation in Ireland, despite the effect of the proposed tax on revenues from online operations potentially putting it at a disadvantage to some of its competitors.

THE McCarthy report says Ireland should review salaries paid to employees of semi-state companies by comparing them with other countries, especially Britain.

Policy context of asset sales

THE sell-off of the state airports at Dublin, Cork and Shannon is expected to be one of the more controversial recommendations contained in a new report due to be presented to the Government later this week.

AER LINGUS chief executive Christoph Mueller offered the hope that staff will not be subjected to possible pay cuts until next year at the earliest, with the airline committed to “finding other ways” to lower costs.

DUBLIN Airport Authority chairman David Dilger is to step down from his position, citing personal reasons. The move, which a statement from the company said would allow Mr Dilger “to afford more time to his broad range of other interests”, will take effect from May 31.

PLANS for the separation of Cork and Shannon airports from the Dublin Airport Authority are unlikely to go ahead due to the poor financial position of both airports.

THE Minister for Tourism, Mary Hanafin wrote to the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan in the run-up to the budget urging him to suspend the contentious €10 air travel tax for two years.

A GROUP of airline, tourism and economics experts will come together next month to debate the future of Shannon Airport which suffered the worst decline in passenger figures of any European airport in 2010.

SHANNON Airport has rejected Ryanair’s offer to increase flights there due to what it called the airline’s “unreasonable demands”.

A US-bound flight turned around over the North Atlantic this evening and returned to Dublin after a passenger suddenly fell ill.

Construction of the new runway is due to be completed by early 2021.

An organisation made up of public and private companies and State-backed entities aimed at promoting business between Ireland and Saudi Arabia has pulled out of a business event in Riyadh next month.

Aer Lingus has not ruled out expanding in Cork and Shannon as it plans a huge growth spurt across the Atlantic in the next five years, but Dublin appears likely to receive the lion’s share of the airline’s investment.

Limerick civil engineering firm Roadbridge will co-partner Spanish giant FCC Construccion on the DAA’s €320m north runway project for Dublin Airport — with an extra €10m sweetener separately given by the authority to fund local community projects.

Timely delivery of the infrastructure promised in the National Development Plan will be the key to Cork achieving its potential in the coming decades.

The operator of Shannon Airport has urged the Government to financially support its efforts to secure flight connectivity to one of the EU's major airports after Brexit.