Originally Posted by ryan2000
The plan to split the 3 airports was announced in 2003! It's obvious now that it was never clearly thought through. Cork and certainly Shannon were never going to be viable entities unless major changes in Work
practices etc were undertaken. What the future holds is anyones guess. The Motorways to Cork and Limerick have if anything strenghtened Dublins grip. The only serious competition is between Cork and Shannon and even that's limited to a handful of routes.
Which was the DAA's intention all along, but it's a madness that has to be stopped. They have to be smashed and streamlined, and once the costs are greatly reduced, it should be looked as a means to an end or a loss-leader to get far higher numbers into and out of the country.