A self styled lobby group, the North Runway Technical Group (NRTG) has issued a statement proposing a climb-gradient of more than 2.5pc at Dublin airport.
The group says flight paths in use from Dublin’s north runway unnecessarily overfly 30,000 people and have caused over 175,000 breaches of planning and environmental laws since the new runway opened.
Daa CEO Kenny Jacobs has rejected the group’s proposal to fix flight paths that have
The group is calling for Transport Minister Eamon Ryan to appoint directors to the daa board with relevant qualifications and experience in aviation, engineering, and infrastructure development.
NRTG member, pilot and civil engineer Gareth O’Brien said in a written statement “we believe daa has for years been too focused on running the shopping centre in the terminals and has neglected everything else. We are deeply concerned that the future of the airport we depend on will continue to be at risk until the board and executives take seriously daa’s role as the developer and operator of the whole airport. The group has become deeply concerned that the biggest risk to the future of Dublin Airport is the ongoing failure of daa to take seriously its responsibility for aviation and infrastructure development.”
Airnav says the 2.5pc gradient used in NRTG’s proposal would never be approved by regulators, but the group says AirNav already uses an approved 6.6pc at daa-managed Cork Airport.
