HOPEFULLY NOT!!!!

Two companies in competition!?
That’s good.
Let’s keep it that way.
A monopoly run by O’Leary would spell a major setback for Irish aviation.

From what I’ve being told from some people who were baggage handlers there is a train station in terminal 1. It wouldn’t take much to run the train and dart lines up from the malahide portmarnock stations or clongriffeb

Agree, no rail device in and out of Dublin Airport is a scandal.

Mick, the government selling its stake in Aer Lingus won’t change any if your concerns! There will still be unions, there will still be additional charges and as for a rail service, well even if the DAA is privatised I can’t see how they could get Metro north up and running without a supporting government!

Metro north should have been sorted during the boom times instead of buying elections with SSIAs.

A japanese company wanted to build an underground in Dublin over 20 years ago, they said they will fund the project, run it for 100 years then give it to the government. The government refused it.

Metro North? How about a Dart line?

That could be done very easy michael. The Dart has a station at Clongriffin and Portmarnock. Branch a line off this line to the airport it would be a 7km track. It would not cost billions like metro north.

Ah now mark you can’t expect them to be coming up with sensible ideas like that!
it would be a much better idea to spend tax money and buy out a toll bridge for near a billion on a motorway that is the city’s and airports main artery ….. oh and then double the toll….

But Mick, do you not remember the pre-Ryanair days when Aer Lingus kept prices down and put the passenger first… oh wait! Competition will win through as it always does. If Ryanair get a monopoly on more routes and raise prices, well that’s the market and they’ll be sensitive to getting as much as they can and we can choose to say no or another airline is free to enter the route if they want to do it cheaper.. The fact is even those who refuse to fly Ryanair get cheaper fares on Aer Lingus but act like somehow Ryanair owe them something. Air travel is not glamorous and no I don’t think my ticket should subsidise the clown who can’t print their own boarding card, turn up on time or have a giant overweight bag. The staff of Aer Lingus cared nothing for protecting the consumer in the past and this sudden concern from a management team who say “Ryanair undervalue the airline by offering a 30% PREMIUM on the share price” sum up how thick the entire anti-Ryanair brigade are.

Yes – Aer Lingus is profitable but if I own shares in it worth 1.07 and Ryanair are offering 1.30 – what exactly is the reason I’m not selling them?

Jamie Aer Lingus is not profitable if you factor in the necessary monies for aircraft replacement or try to do anything with the black hole in the pension fund. My concern on the latter is that come the next election some idiot Party will offer a correction from the public purse in return for votes and you and I will be paying again. Remember these are the staff that got a chunk of the Airline in FREE shares and can fly all over the world for free for the remainder of their lives and I don’t want anything to do with this cosseted bunch in terms of pensions. The State needs out now.
On the other hand that other little Fianna Fail employment exchange who charge more to park a car than you would pay for a return flight anywhere in Europe they need to be sold even faster because they run a facility in Terminal One that is so malnourished you would need to fly to Mogadishu to see something as bad. The rents they charge for retail space would make a Landlord in Hong Kong blush.
The Company known as DAA needs to be sold to a hard nosed organisation that will attract more airlines and bring costs under control while giving us punters some value.