Aer Lingus drops appeal against €40m Ryanair airport hangar

Aer Lingus has dropped a challenge to Ryanair’s proposal to build a E40m maintenance hangar at Dublin Airport. The carrier was seeking leave from the planning appeals body An Bord Pleanála to challenge Fingal County Council’s decision to allow its rival build the hangar next to a facility leased by Aer Lingus at the airport. However, Aer Lingus confirmed on Friday it had dropped the appeal application “in respect of the planning permission granted for the construction of hangar 7″. It had feared preparatory work Dublin Airport would have had to complete to allow Ryanair build the facility would have interfered with its own operations at the adjacent hangar 6. “Following a period of uncertainty, Aer Lingus has now made significant progress in discussions with Dublin Airport on a workable solution for operations at the adjacent hangar 6,” it said in a statement. “We will now work constructively with Dublin Airport in order to formalise that solution.” Aer Lingus leases hangar 6 at the airport. It wanted to appeal the local authority’s decision to grant Ryanair permission for hangar 7 on the grounds that the preparatory work at the site would have prevented aircraft from getting in and out of its own facility.<br/>