Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Security, Recruitment and Training at Dublin Airport: Discussion
Mr. Kenny Jacobs:
That is a good question. It is both. If the Senator had asked me three years ago when I was still working for an airline what the right frequency of flights to Malaga was, I would not have thought it was the number we have today. Spain is the destination that keeps on giving. That is where the biggest demand is. It involves short-haul flights within Europe. At the same time we are not connected to South America or India at the moment. We have limited connectivity to Asia, especially south-east Asia. Therefore it is both. There will still be places such as Turkey on the periphery of Europe. We have a lot of charter flights that go there, but are there enough frequent enough flights from Dublin Airport to Turkey, compared to airports such as Manchester? Probably not. There are places that involve both short-haul and long-haul flights. Many are new places it would be great to have connectivity to. There are 90,000 Brazilians living in Dublin. They all fly with Ryanair to Lisbon in order to go home to visit parents and grandparents and do all those things. For that community of 90,000 Brazilians, we have an appetite for a conversation, subject to bilateral agreements being in place between Ireland and Brazil. From an aviation point of view, I look at that and think wow, is that not a better choice-----
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