Aviation

The Briefing: More noise than answers as DAA’s Kenny Jacobs flounders on passenger cap

The operator of Dublin and Cork airports has submitted a planning application to increase the cap on passengers passing through Dublin Airport from 32 million to 40 million

Kenny Jacobs, the chief executive at DAA, faced some intense questioning from reporters on the proposed increase in the Dublin Airport passenger cap. Picture: Conor McCabe Photography

How hard can it be to give a straight answer to a straight question?

It would seem that the direct question of how much more emissions would 8 million more passengers at Dublin Airport create can’t elicit a clear answer.

No amount of insect hotels and mobility bikes on display at DAA’s launch of its 20-point plan to accelerate its environmental sustainability ambitions could distract from the major issue of climate change on Wednesday morning.