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[Article] Grounded call for long-term planning at Dublin Airport

  • 23-04-2005 6:38pm
    #1
    Victor
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    http://www.thepost.ie/breakingnews/breaking_story.asp?j=9172676&p=9y7z7zz&n=9172764&x=
    23/04/2005 - 10:44:31 AM

    Grounded call for long-term planning at Dublin Airport

    Aviation lobby group Grounded has called for a focus on long term capacity planning to ensure the long term need for Dublin Airport to handle increasing passenger numbers is addressed.

    The group called for planning to be put in place to address the airport's needs 10 to 15 years down the line rather than a short to medium term approach.

    "Despite the recent architectural consultant's report, which said that the proposed site for the new terminal had very limited long term growth potential, all indications still pointed to this as the most likely site.

    "Not much can be done about bad planning in the past, but we now appear headed for a situation where, despite the Government having predicted the airport will handle 30 million passengers within 10 years, it will approve a terminal facility which will not be able to handle that number," according to spokesman, John Fitzpatrick.

    Grounded also called on the Government to serve the need for additional freight handling capacity at Dublin Airport.


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  • #2
    ishmael whale
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    It’s not just the extra security checks forcing home the inadequacy of the existing terminal. It’s the way that, after all the ‘dithering’ as Ryanair would call it, there’s still no clear strategy for delivering more capacity at Dublin. Whether the terminal is run by the public or private sectors, (or by Trappist Monks or, for that matter, Australian transvestites) seems less important at this stage than simply getting a load of guys in hard hats (or Trappist Monks or Australian transvestites) to turn up on site and start laying bricks. But that day seems as distant as it ever was.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0425/DAA.html
    “New figures show that record debt levels at the Dublin Airport Authority may hamper government plans to build a new terminal at the capital's airport. According to a newspaper report this morning, the authority is showing a record debt of €384m that would cause serious difficulty if it were to win a contract to build the new low-cost facility. Net debt at the company has risen by 85% in the last five years and is likely to continue to rise with the building of a new terminal in Cork and plans to roll out a redundancy package at some of the three airports.”


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