The Clare Echo 21/12/23

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Dec 21 2023

HOW’S IT GOIN’ LOHANS Festive bonus

for Shannon Airport...

Busiest Christmas season since 09 but fears over Dublin lifting passenger cap by Páraic McMahon paraic@clareecho.ie

l Brid and Gus Lohan receive a gift from Santa Claus at the senior citizens party organised by Shannon Gardaí held at The Goalpost Photo by Joe Buckley Bar

AS SHANNON AIRPORT gears up for its busiest Christmas in fourteen years, attempts by Dublin Airport to lift its passenger cap have been labelled as “illogical”. Over 121,000 passengers are due through the gates of Shannon Airport during the festive period, marking a jump of 18 percent. On Friday last, Fingal County Council received a planning application from the Dublin Airport Authority to build a suite of 11 infrastructure projects at Dublin Airport and the surrounding area and increase passenger capacity from 32 million to 40 million passengers per annum.

Cllr Clare Colleran Molloy (FF) said, “they want to have capacity for 40m. It seems illogical as a nation that we would allow for this imbalance”. Cllr Pat McMahon (FF) has called on the Transport Minister to ensure any distribution on night flights in Dublin by the DAA does not favour Cork Airport over Shannon. “We’re not looking for half the flights that are coming into Dublin, we’re only looking for five to seven percent of the flights to come into Shannon that are going to Dublin, the only way that can change I’m led to believe is by altering the National Aviation Policy,” maintained Cllr Pat O’Gorman (FF).

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