Dublin airport recorded its busiest every single day final weekend, with a complete of 120,585 passengers travelling by way of the hub on Sunday 30 July.
The airport additionally reported passenger figures of over 3.4 million for the month of July, which it stated was 13 per cent greater than the identical interval in 2022, and “on a par with July 2019”. The whole contains 205,000 switch and transit passengers.
The airport additionally stated that 99.6 per cent of consumers handed by way of safety in lower than 20 minutes final month, and on the arrivals aspect it took a median of 19 minutes for baggage to be delivered from the plane to the luggage belt.
“Given July was the wettest month on file, it’s maybe no shock that hundreds of passengers opted to swap soggy Eire for sunnier climes and jumped on a flight for a last-minute summer season vacation,” stated Kenny Jacobs, chief govt officer of Dublin airport’s operator daa.
“The busiest days in July usually come within the center a part of the month, however this yr passenger numbers continued to rise because the month went on at each Dublin and Cork airports. The summer season thus far has been actually clean at Dublin Airport which is right down to the outstanding efforts of the workforce and on behalf of our passengers, I need to thank them for his or her laborious work.”
In different information the daa stated it was “upset” by Fingal County Council’s choice to offer solely six weeks discover for Dublin Airport to conform to scale back the variety of evening flights to a most of 65 between 2300 and 0700.
The operator stated that the enforcement order “comes even though Fingal County Council has already confirmed that having a cap on the variety of evening flights is not a fit-for-purpose manner of figuring out what number of flights ought to function at evening time and really helpful {that a} extra acceptable noise quota ought to be launched”.
“We now face an pointless state of affairs whereby Fingal County Council requires its interpretation of those onerous working situations to be utilized at Dublin Airport – and inside simply six weeks,” stated Jacobs.
“Unreasonably, this may imply the variety of flights working on Dublin Airport’s two runways between 2300 and 0700 could be decrease than earlier than North Runway opened and when it solely had one runway.
“It will be like rising the variety of seats in Croke Park to 100,000 however slicing the capability for video games to 50,000. It is unnecessary, and the travelling public deserves higher.”