Airporter coach company snapped up by Dublin bus group

The Dublin-based subsidiary of London-listed bus company First Group has bought north west Northern Ireland coach company Airporter for an undisclosed sum.

Aircoach has acquired the company’s Springtown Industrial Estate base in Londonderry and said all drivers and operational staff will transfer to the new company.

Airporter was founded in 1996 by Niall and Jennifer McKeever to run bus services between the north west to Belfast International Airport