Air India
Can you all step back a minute and realise that you're getting excited about a possible hub, with AIR INDIA. The airlines that often arrives a day late and then changes schedules at a moments notice. The same AIR INDIA that is pimping it's new fleet of B777s to any airline that might take them off their hands?
The solution to Dublin's growth strategy isn't going to be an international superhub from one of the world's least reliable carriers. Read the thread on the Air India Express accident if you doubt that.
Does the Irish economy have enough cash to splurge out on extending the main runway at DUB and get payback within a generation? Given that the gransiose expansion of the terminal may be a while getting paid off, it seems madness. I know you have to speculate to accumulate but for the love of God, AIR INDIA !?!?!? In the current climate, no one in their right mind will, or ought to back this with their own money. Which leaves the taxpayer of course(!)