Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Aviation Policy: Ryanair
Mr. Michael O'Leary:
Be very careful. We have two of those hangars. We would happily move them in the morning. Those hangars would have to be rebuilt over on the west apron but we need those hangars. They do the maintenance. We have 37 aircraft based in Dublin Airport. Conor McCarthy's firm, Dublin Aerospace, has one of the large ones there. It can move quite readily. It does contract maintenance. That could move to Shannon Airport.
That is a matter for that company. The facility is there. The legendary hangar 6, which is largely empty because it is not used very much, does not have to move at all because the building would never go down as far as hangar 6. Very little disruption would take place. The advantage of building something on the north apron is that one can access it from the existing multi-storey car parks and one would be going across to it. My problem originally with Terminal 2 was that it was built in a cul-de-sac, down in the wrong place. One cannot easily walk between the two terminals.
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