Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on Aviation

Mr. Ray Gray:

Rather than flights being transferred to Dublin, there have, unfortunately, been reductions in air services and a slower than anticipated resumption of those services into Cork due to continuing difficulties relating to travel. We have a team in Cork, through the managing director, Mr. Neil McCarthy, as well as Mr. Kevin Cullinane and Mr. Brian Gallagher on the marketing side, that is constantly engaged with and focused on airlines to try to maximise their return to operation and how they can work in the current environment. The news has not been good. We have been operating on the basis of something under 1,000 passengers per day, with approximately 400 coming in or out, on average, in the past number of days. That compares to something like 10,000 in a normal situation.

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