It's not all holidays, so who's getting on the flights out of Dublin Airport?

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Dublin Airport is far from what’s normal for the first day of July.

DON’T BELIEVE THE hype, Dublin Airport is not full of people heading off on summer holidays. Not yet anyway.

The increase will have an effect on the numbers at Dublin Airport but it won’t alone be a gamechanger. It's basically like heading off on a day that's weirdly quiet. You wouldn't be doing much queuing anyway. pic.twitter.com/yXTdd5BJ7eWith airlines also making it a requirement that you wear a mask to get on board a flight, over 80% of the passengers in the departures hall are wearing a mask.

“As in all of these measures, it’s down to personal responsibility. People need to take the responsibility themselves to wear face masks and to observe social distancing. And we’d like people to do that,” he told TheJournal.ie. A Greek mother and son were flying back to Greece via Dublin because it was the cheapest way they could get there from Brussels.

When we got back here the airport was completely empty and there was only 20 people on the flight. Everyone was really cautious, I just didn’t know what was going to happen and I felt afraid. Eli says they’re a bit nervous about returning to Berlin because they’ve heard stories about people not taking it too seriously. She says friends have told her about house parties but that once the R number is below 1 the authorities are happy for things to continue.

“The qualification period for the Olympics is opening today, actually. So yeah, the work starts for Beijing 2022 and I have to get out for training,” he adds.

 

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