Dublin and Cork airport operator daa urgently needs a regulatory decision on passenger charges that addresses the "unsustainably low level" that currently pertains, its chairman designate has said.
In an opening statement at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications, Basil Geoghegan said the Commission for Aviation Regulation's 2019 decision on pricing has effectively been rendered void by the pandemic. "As a result, Dublin Airport found itself facing into the crisis with a fundamentally flawed pricing structure, resulting in airport charges that were disproportionally low when compared with its European peers," he claimed. "What started pre Covid as an unfortunate mis-pricing, transferring value from the Irish taxpayer