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[Article] Worker Director quits Dublin Airport Authority

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03-12-2004 9:51am

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Worker Director quits Dublin Airport Authority
December 03, 2004 07:46

One of the worker-directors of the newly formed Dublin Airport Authority is to resign over what he says was a lack of consultation on the deal struck with Ryanair at Shannon Airport.

Dermot O'Loughlin is the SIPTU representative on the Board, which was established following the break-up of Aer Rianta. He is expected to formally resign today.

While Shannon Airport has its own board, the final breakup of Aer Rianta is not yet complete so the new incentive scheme it has just introduced had to receive the agreement of the Dublin board.

This scheme, which is open to all new airlines, gives generous discounts on landing fees as well as marketing supports if new airlines base planes at Shannon.

Earlier this week Ryanair became the first airline to take advantage of the scheme which will see it paying just 50 cent per passenger in airport charges and receiving up to €2 per passenger in marketing support in its first year of operating new routes.

In emailed correspondence, Dermot O'Loughlin, the SIPTU worker representative on the board of the Dublin Airport Authority, expressed his misgivings about the scheme to its acting Chief Executive Oliver Cussen.

However, the scheme went ahead regardless, without any further consultation.

In his resignation letter to be delivered to Chairman Garry McGann this morning, Mr O'Loughlin said the episode makes 'a mockery of the representative structures of the DAA.'

A spokesman for the DAA was unwilling to comment until the Board had formally received Mr O'Loughlin's letter.

Seperately, Mr O'Loughlin has written to the 13 companies which expressed an interest in building a second terminal at Dublin Airport to propose an investment scheme.

The Civil Aviation Terminal Investment Scheme would invite union workers at the airport to invest up to €1,000 a year for four years as part of a fund of €12m which would purchase a stake in any future second terminal project. The Government has made no decision yet on the project.

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