The development of a third terminal at Dublin Airport is not needed at this time, trade unions have maintained. Ictu said if there was a need for a third terminal at some point in the future “it should be financed, owned and operated by the Dublin Airport Authority”. “To allow the development of a privately owned and operated third terminal at Dublin Airport would undermine the strategic and economic importance of Dublin Airport and would contradict Government policy of developing Dublin Airport as a secondary hub.”Ictu also maintained any such privately owned and operated terminal would have “the potential to negatively impact on the quality of employment at Dublin Airport”. “We know of no other airport that has an independently owned and operated terminal in competition with other terminals and, in our view, it would make no sense to organise Dublin Airport on this basis.”Close to 30 million passengers passed through Dublin Airport last year, an increase of 6 per cent on 2016. Ictu said it had been approached by CEPA in February seeking its views on a potential third terminal at Dublin Airport.

Source: The Irish Times April 02, 2018 03:56 UTC