The outgoing president of the Irish Airline Pilots' Association said a third terminal is needed at Dublin Airport.
Evan Cullen, who will be succeeded in mid-May by Aer Lingus pilot Mark Tighe, a former head of the association, told the Irish Independent newspaper any third terminal should be independent of the Dublin Airport Authority, which runs Dublin Airport and Cork Airport.
Dublin Airport is Europe's fifteenth-busiest, according to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics firm, and looks set to top 30 million passengers in 2023. Dublin's aircraft leasing and aviation services sectors have expanded over the past two decades, making the Irish capital a magnet for spin-off companies from other countries.
“We need an independent Terminal 3 that will ultimately have 100-plus contact stands and we need to start working on that immediately,” said Cullen, who took over from Tighe as the association's president in 2003.
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