Aviation
Peter Kearney, air safety boss: ‘When you have humans, there is always potential for error’
Ireland’s air traffic management service expects to guide around 1.25 million planes through Irish airspace in 2024
Walking around the air traffic control tower at Dublin Airport, two things stand out. One is the view, which on a clear day stretches as far as the Mourne Mountains to the north, and mountains in Wales to the east.
The second is the sense of calm – the atmosphere is a far cry from how air traffic control towers are displayed in movies.
For Peter Kearney, head of AirNav, the new air traffic management ...