Business aviation representatives have welcomed a move to step back from threatened private jet restrictions at Dublin Airport. Photograph: Alan Betsonare no longer at risk of being “banned” in a move that will defuse rising tensions among foreign companies whose executives routinely visit the State.
The move prompted the US-based National Business Aviation Association to set out corporate concerns to both the US and Irish ambassadors earlier this year. “If our executives are unable to continue flying to Dublin Airport, will be compelled to halt all new hiring in Ireland and consider phasing out our office,” it said in a letter released under Freedom of Information legislation.
The National Business Aviation Association has now welcomed a recent decision that appears to have ended the threat to executive jet activity, at least in the short term.“The IAA draft decision for the winter 2024/2025 travel season determined the airport’s current cap at 32 million passengers annually would only apply to traffic utilising the facility’s two commercial airline passenger terminals, preserving GA and business aviation access to Dublin through at least March 29th, 2025,” it noted.