An update to drenchings at Cork Airport. A work colleague had her teenage niece down with her in Cork from Dublin last weekend. The young lady returned home on Sunday afternoon with Ryanair amidst the torrent at Cork. Aircraft was said to be parked in Togher in relation to the terminal so our young friend was in receipt of a substantial drenching so much so that later on arrival at Dublin Airport the teenager had to change all her clothes in the rest room. A young lady whose mother has been seriously ill in a Dublin hospital for the last 5 weeks following a fall comes to Cork to be with her aunt as a treat and this is how she is despatched home again to Dublin from Cork Airport. No excuses, no blame game, it is just a disgrace. Time for covered walkways to be commissioned asap at Cork Airport.
It is certainly to be welcomed and some cynics may be getting a whiff of a three card trick from the CAA, DAA and government but the Cork Evening Echo today is reporting that board members of the Cork Airport Authority were said to be outraged by the consultants, BDO Simpson Xaiver, to cut them out of negotiation talks with the DAA about whom should pay for Cork's new terminal and are expected to call on the minister for new consultants to take over the matter.
A CAA source said: "The board were outraged yesterday and there was complete disbelief among members. We will be asking the Minister for new consultants to take over because it is clear that BDO cannot carry on in this role." Following a meeting yesterday Mr Joe Gantley, chairman of the CAA said they had met "To discuss and review the collapse of the engagement process with the DAA." My, my is it really getting interesting or is it Tony Blair or Bertie Aherne type spin? Discuss.
Cork had an unexpected visit from an Iberia Airbus A321 at midnight last night en route Madrid to Heathrow. Have no other details to hand but it may well have been Cork Airport's first time to have had aircraft from four national carrier airlines on the ground together, Aer Lingus, Czeck Airlines, Malev and Iberia?