The Daa has informed staff that it will be seeking up to 1,000 voluntary redundancies and other cost reductions due to the collapse in passenger numbers at Irish airports due ot the Covid-19 virus.
In a memo to staff today, chief executive Dalton Philips says that with passenger numbers down by 99%, the outlook for the rest of the year is "bleak".
He said the Daa only expects to have a throughput of 21 million passengers next year. Mr Philip noted that the last time Dublin and Cork Airports operated with that level of passenger traffic, it had 750 to 1,000 fewer personnel.