If I were the CAA board I'd sack the entire management team and hire people who actually know how to run an airport successfully. The current lot are a complete joke.
en2r you obviously do not realise the politics in Cork Airport... Firstly Alf Smiddy and the worker Directors and possibly Veronica Perdissant if she comes out publicly and states she was against the report, are the only people who should be left on the CAA Board..
The rest Chairman Joe Gantly, Chief Executive Pat Keohane, Don Cullinane, Pat Dalton and Humphrey Murphy should all resign or be removed form the board. They have shown that the do not have the best interest in mind for Cork Airport by accepting a report that will Financially cripple Cork Airport and inhibit any future developement of Cork Airport. All of the above people where put in place by the government to insure that the government get their own way at what every cost. These people doen't have any the slightest knowledge in the aviation business..
A new market manager should be brought in and given the resources and freedom to promote new business etc.
Up to 3 years ago Cork Airport had a productive management team including Joe O' Connor and John Smith(an aviation marketing mastermind).
Now the marketing manager seems to do nothing productive has not brought in 1 decent airline on a year round basis..
The Chief Executive has done nothing bar cause trouble.. Dictating to Airlines that they can only land between certain hours instead of trying to increase the amount of developement on routes and new airlines. He has shackled the Marketing Department with rules that don't allow the airport to be made attractive to new airlines or exsisting ones for route expansion. He has dictated to staff on operational issues but yet never spends time in the relavant departments to see what is happening or to see the implications of his actions.