Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority
Mr. Vincent Harrison:
There are mixed views on that. Many of our customers say that it is not a beneficial provision because it creates a single point of failure that everybody has to access and that if individual aircraft are out of sequence, everybody else is held up in the queue. Traditionally, individual aircraft have been de-iced on stand. That does not mean that anybody is waiting for anybody else in a line. I absolutely accept that different airports with different configurations have different infrastructure. We were a bit surprised by that. To clarify, there could not have been any expectation that sort of provision would have been made available on the day. Perhaps that is where some of the confusion about infrastructure not being available on the day arose-----
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