More than 10 million passengers will use its facilities over the holiday months, jetting off on well-earned and much anticipated breaks by themselves, or with family or friends.The airport has said it is ready for the influx, promising to get at least 90% of people through security in 20 minutes or less, partly thanks to the use of some new C3 scanners which do not require liquids or laptops to be removed from bags.
The restriction was put in place as part of the granting of planning permission for the second terminal at the airport in 2007 and for an extension of Terminal 1 that was approved in 2008.Last year, 31,908,471 passengers passed through the two terminals - a staggering recovery considering that just three years earlier, only 7.4 million people used it because of the pandemic.
In December, daa submitted an application to Fingal County Council seeking to have the cap increased to 40 million passengers a year, as part of permission it is seeking to improve infrastructure at the airfield. In February, Ryanair said that while it will grow its passenger numbers by 16 million this summer, opening 80 new routes across Europe, all that growth would bypass Dublin.
"Dublin Airport is a really important national infrastructure and we're at a point where the passenger cap will increasingly likely impact the economy and the travelling public in just a few months' time." This was the first time that such a seat capacity limit has been put in place by the Irish Aviation Authority and was done after it had taken the passenger cap contained in the planning permission into account.
Aer Lingus, for one, has confirmed that it is considering legally challenging the IAA seat capacity decision. Ireland used 1.36 billion litres of jet kerosene in 2023 - the highest annual demand ever recorded and up 12.7% on the previous year - reflecting the record number of passenger flights in and out of Ireland last year.
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