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:
I am sure Mr. Harrison will have thoughts on this. Shannon Airport has been incredibly supportive of us and we have a very good relationship with it. We have two-way communication going on with it on many different issues. We reached out to it and there are times when it will speak to us about things. We work very well with Shannon Airport. In the context of airlines such as Emirates, Qatar Airways and Cathay Pacific, before the pandemic, if they were lost to Dublin Airport, they would be lost to an airport such as those in Vienna or Manchester. We are competing against these other airports. If we lose those airlines, they will not come to Ireland. We can work very effectively with Shannon Airport. We do not deploy to where the airlines go. They choose where they wish to operate.
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