Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion

Mr. Dalton Philips:

Yes, I am just trying to put some colour on it. When we were downsizing, we took all the data of the industry analysts and we worked through those to try to predict what the traffic levels would be for 2022, 2023 and 2024, and we reduced our overall cost base to meet that. We were wildly wrong in terms of the recovery levels that happened once the travelling public started travelling from March onwards. As the Deputy is aware, January and February were very concerning months. We had Ukraine and Omicron. From March, it took off at a level we had not expected and therefore we were behind where we needed to be in terms of our recruitment.

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