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. Niall MacCarthy:
I do not believe so. I also worked in Shannon Airport, although I will not speak for it. The flightpaths there largely come in over the Atlantic. Flights, therefore, are coming in over fallow land. We have a very good relationship with our neighbours in Cork. We are in a rural part but are not too far from the city. Flights come over the city and circle over the sea at Kinsale. We can count on two hands the number of noise complaints we get in a single year. We have no issue with noise. We have a very good relationship with our local community. As a matter of fact, we worked with AirNav Ireland, Ryanair and Aer Lingus on alternative flight paths, which are called continuous descent operations, that reduce the amount of circling over areas. That was completed this year. It has proven to be a success in reducing noise and fuel burn.
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