Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Aviation Policy (Resumed): Regional Airports

Mr. Niall MacCarthy:

This year, we expect to serve between 2.4 million and 2.5 million passengers. There is a tight employment market. Ireland is at effectively full employment, but we are advertising extensively on social media, local radio and so on. It is all about getting summer seasonal staff in place and readying ourselves, from a security, retail and car-park point of view, for the busy summer ahead. We are a good employer and the airport is a nice place to work. Airports in general are good places to work. People are excited about being in an airport. I am pleased to say we are in good stead. We, our handlers and our airlines, despite it being a tight employment market, are ready for a busy summer ahead. We have just got our customer service statistics from Red C, which interviewed thousands of passengers. Anyone who has used Cork Airport will know it is a very good airport with very good passenger service levels. We have been rated 4.7 out of five. I am sure Deputy Crowe has used it plenty of times, but I urge him to broaden his perspective and use Cork Airport as well because we offer very good passenger service levels. We are ready for summer.

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