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:

It is being listened to but it could be listened to more. I have worked in an airline and ten years ago would have been calling for restrictions on air traffic control and to allow overflights, but ten years later it is still happening. I think everybody involved in aviation is fed up and is right to be fed up with this. We would like greater pressure that there is a single European view taken on this to say, for example, if French air traffic controllers go on strike or regional German air traffic controllers have staffing issues, that then impacts their domestic market and it should not impact people flying from Dublin over France on their way to Italy on their holidays. That is something that can be fixed. There is nothing technical getting in the way or nothing safety related to this. This is something that can be decided. There will obviously be some political resistance. The support that we would-----

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