Recent News

Emirates Lands at T2 Dublin Airport

 (Launching the new Emirates Dublin- Dubai service , was from left Cabin Crew Danika Lillelund; Irish Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Leo Varadkar TD ;Declan Collier, Chief Executive, DAA ; Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline ; and cabin crew Lorna Lynch)

In economic terms this service now provides direct linkage from Dublin to a major international hub in the middle east allowing the movement of goods and people. Dubai itself is a vast airport with four terminals and up to eighty carriers that link to dozens of cities in the EU, Africa, South and Southeast Asia, The Far East, Australia, and further afield.

New Working Group

After a review of the working groups of the DASF in 2011 the Forum decided to abolish the surface access and economic development & customer services working groups and replace them with a Passenger Services Working Group. The new working group will effectively deal with the issues that these groups dealt with, and incorporate a few additional ones for example the customer experience of the airport, airline serivices, terminal services and shopping. The Passenger Services working group will be chaired by Paul Smith of DCU who is a member of the Forum.

Almost 2 million passengers through the airport in August and September

Just under 2 million passengers passed through Dublin Airport in August, a decline of almost 2% on the same period last year, according to the Dublin Airport Authority.

The decline was due to the continued contraction of domestic air travel and a reduction in capacity on a number of European routes by one major customer. Passenger volumes to and from continental Europe declined by 3% with almost 1.1 million passengers travelling to European destinations during the month. However, UK traffic recorded a 1% increase with just under 660,000 passengers travelling in August.

Transatlantic traffic to North America increased by 7% with just under 190,000 passengers travelling on this route sector last month. Traffic to other international destinations, which includes flights to the Middle East and to North Africa, was stable with almost 27,000 passengers travelling on these routes during August.

Passenger numbers on domestic routes declined by 71% with just over 9,000 travelling on domestic flights last month.
So far this year, almost 13 million passengers have travelled through Dublin Airport, a 4% increase over the same period in 2010. International traffic is up more than 5% this year.

Photo above - Passengers using T2.