Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority

Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

I do. I hope there are not difficulties in Ireland. I hope and expect there will not be difficulties in Dublin and Cork airports. As I stand back and look at European aviation, resilience will be a challenge next summer. French, Catalonian and German air traffic controls will have staffing issues. If they have staffing issues, things slow down. I expect, and everyone should expect, that it could be a challenging summer. We might stand back and look at Dublin Airport last summer and compare it to Schiphol, Manchester, Gatwick and those airlines that capped their traffic. People had to wait two and a half or three hours to go through security and significant swathes of people missed flights, which is totally unacceptable.

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