A county council is taking enforcement action to force Dublin Airport to comply with planning rules on overnight flight numbers:
Ryanair has criticised a bid to cut the number of overnight flights at Dublin Airport, after the airport's operator was told it is breaching current rules.
Under the enforcement action, Dublin Airport was given six weeks to conform to the limit of 65 flights or fewer between the hours of 23:00 and 07:00.The cap was among the planning conditions that were imposed when the airport was granted permission to build a new "North Runway" in 2007.However, the airport's operator, Dublin Airport Authority , has long opposed the night flights limit as an impediment to its services.
"It would be like increasing the number of seats in Croke Park [stadium] to 100,000 but cutting the capacity for games to 50,000," Mr Jacobs claimed.However, campaigners living under the flight path complain that their sleep is being severely disrupted by the number of night time flights. "You cannot have a situation where a corporation is not held to the same planning laws as a citizen," she said.But Ryanair described the council enforcement action as "idiotic" and "stupid".
Having lived in Portmarnock for 30 years, she said the disruption has become "exponentially worse" in recent months and was now affecting her school-aged children.
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