Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA

1:10 pm

Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

We will push them so that they come to us as quickly as possible. Our team will then analyse the proposal to see how practical it is. I give a strong undertaking that we will push them as fast as possible to see what is realistic and what can be implemented. We are not trying to go slow on this. If there is a better flight path that can reduce noise, we want to find it and implement it as quickly as possible, within the constraints of it being a complicated airspace, above and below, with a complicated airfield. There are many different things at play. Safety comes first and then what is practically implementable from an air traffic control point of view. The design of a flight path is one thing. We then give it to AirNav and the airlines as being what we want to operate. Many airlines have different points of view and AirNav has a particular point of view, but safety is what comes first.

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