Mr. Michael O'Leary:

I doubt any airline could see a reason for it. This is a longer discussion. Dublin has two parallel runways which has been a terrific success. Dublin is one of the few airports in Europe with two runways. An old taxiway runs across them and the tower is at the far side. It is also where the McEvaddy lands are, which have been raised a number of times. The DAA wishes to drive buses under these instead of driving them across the taxiway to free up more of the land and, maybe at some point in the future, build a third terminal on the far side to sterilise the McEvaddy lands. It is all rubbish. It does nothing for traffic at Dublin Airport which needs additional terminal facilities on the north apron where the second runway is now open. We encourage and urge the DAA to get on with building the facilities we, the airlines, want and will pay for and stop screwing around with the west apron, which none of us care about or will ever wish to use. It is as simple as this: one can drive across that taxiway with railway bridges and stop-go lights. The aircraft do not taxi up and down it very frequently. Not alone does the DAA wish to pay €200 million to build a tunnel under a taxiway, but can one imagine the disruption to aircraft movements for 18 months or two years while they are tunnelling under it and having lorries between X and Y? It does nothing for the travelling passengers or the airlines. It is simply a way of inflating the capital base in order that the DAA will go to the regulator saying it had to spend on this money and needs a return.