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FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL has given ‘lift-off’ to Ryanair’s €40 million plans to construct a new state-of-the-art four bay aircraft maintenance hangar at Dublin airport.
This follows the Council granting planning permission for the major investment by the airline which is to create over 200 jobs for engineers and mechanics.
Hangar 7 – which is to be located to the north of Hangar 6 and the North Apron and south of Gatepost 1B on airport grounds – will facilitate the heavy and line maintenance of Ryanair’s fleet at Dublin Airport as the airline grows its fleet to 600 aircraft.
The Council has granted planning permission despite a call by the Irish Air Line Pilots Association (IALPA) to refuse planning permission for the proposal.
In a planning report lodged with the application, planning consultants for Ryanair, Coakley O’Neill, told the Council that the proposed facility will have 80 workers on site per each 12 hour shift.
The report states that the new maintenance hangar “will provide Ryanair with the required capabilities to support the operations of the Ryanair fleet of aircraft”.
The report states that all Ryanair aircraft “entering the hangar will generally, either be off-service from an incoming Ryanair existing scheduled passenger flight or entering into service within Ryanair’s existing scheduled passenger flights to and from Dublin Airport”.
The report states that “there will be no intensification of Ryanair’s use of Dublin Airport as a result of the proposed development”.
Coakley O’Neill argue that the scheme “will provide long term quality employment in the aviation services sector” in Dublin.
The planning consultants argued that “given the existing airside infrastructure uses on land and in the immediate vicinity of the site, an air transport infrastructure development, such as the hangar proposed, is the most appropriate use of the site”.
However, Director of Safety and Technical at IALPA, David Morrissey, told the Council that the application should be refused on a number of grounds.
In an IALPA submission, Morrissey contended that the application “is premature”.
Morrissey also argued that the proposed site location “is detrimental to safe flight operations and contravenes the Fingal County Council Development Plan”.
However, at the end of a 66-page planner’s report on the scheme, Fingal Co Council state that the construction of Hangar 7 “would not detract unduly from the amenity of the Dublin Airport complex and its surrounding area”.
Fingal Co Council has included a condition that the proposal is not to commence until such time as planning permission has been granted for the North Apron extension, which is intended to serve access to the proposed Hangar 7.
In a separate decision, Fingal Co Council granted planning permission to daa for an extension to the existing North Apron last week.
Best Airline ever. If Michael O Leary was in charge of public services, including HSE , they would be best in class
@Peter Byrne:
Should have been encouraged with all state support to build at Shannon Airport
Knock Airport or Waterford Airport
@Peter Byrne: what a pitiful comment devoid of political understanding. Years gone by christopher hitchens was asked over a decade ago about a Donald trump presidency. His response. “I find it rather telling & troubling when members of the public suggest giving a businessman whos supposed to be a can do guy the keys to the kingdom to sort stuff out. Theres a whiff of fascism about it”. Countries aren’t businesses and businessmen never make good statemen in most cases unless you like fascism which is what you’re advocating for.
@David Murray: There’s already a heavy maintenance hanger in Shannon. Opened May 22.
@David Murray: The ‘anywhere but Dublin’ crowd are in.
@DCar: a “heavy maintenance hanger”, is it a dry cleaner for very heavy clothes?
@Jerry LeFrog: obviously a comment from someone who hasn’t a clue about aviation.
@DCar: oh yes I have.
I also know the difference between “hanger” and “hangar”, which you obviously don’t. My attempt at humour went waaay over your head… like an aircraft at FL350.
@Jerry LeFrog: my apologies. You must be a riot at a party.
@Mic JHintl: he has as many as 4 times upvotes as you
It won’t end up at double the price like the hospital, that’s for sure. Watch and learn ministers.
Excellent that the Ukrainians are getting a well deserved welfare cut, hope it stops the chancers coming here
Yellow pack servicing
Dining out with SF the party for change. At the US embassy.
On another note… why are all these people complaining about aircraft noise from the new north runway? Surely they knew that the runway was going to be built, before they made the decision to buy their houses in and around the airfield??
A Raheny man, who was really a mercenary, was killed in Ukraine and the immediate response to his nearest are getting “consulate advice” this chump served 7 years in Iraq killing Arabs as a US soldier. No outrage, no sense of backlash to ‘why’ he was where he was, the media really is beyond satire at this point.
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