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DUBLIN AIRPORT HAD its busiest ever year in 2015, as a record 25 million passengers travelled through the airport.
Passenger numbers increased by 15% last year with an additional 3.3 million people using the airport.
The extra passengers was due to 22 new routes and extra capacity on almost 40 existing services. Numbers are expected to continue growing as more new services are rolled out this year.
To cope with growing passenger numbers, DAA hired about 170 people last year and a further new 180 employees will be taken on in 2016.
Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe welcomed the news, saying: “Connectivity is vital for our island economy.”
“Extra inbound passengers at Dublin Airport helped to bring record numbers of tourists to Ireland last year, and the opportunities offered to business by new routes from Dublin and additional choice on existing services similarly helped to boost trade and foreign direct investment.”
New runway?
DAA Chief Executive Kevin Toland said Dublin Airport is currently upgrading its facilities, with improvements being made to both terminals. Ten new aircraft parking stands will be completed before the summer, and an extension to the Terminal Two multi-storey car park has been added to meet increased customer demand.
The airport is also currently evaluating plans for the development of a new runway.
A second parallel runway has been part of the Dublin Airport local area plan since the 1970s. Planning permission for a new runway was granted in 2007, but the project was put on hold due to the recession.
Between 2010 and 2015, transatlantic passenger numbers have increased by 66% at the airport and 15 new transatlantic services have been added.
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Had not realised they had not yet provided a replacement mobility allowance for those who require it. Typical government not important as there are no votes in it…..
When it comes to the golden circle the wheels of government can spin very fast…when its the most vulnerable they barely turn at all.
Wonder will they change when they get a spanking on may 23..
Yet Water tax legislation sailed through in record time………………makes you wonder about priorities doesnt it?
It is a pity they would not cut their own mobility allowance as in travel claims just to attend the Dail, their place of work!
Government policy. The weak, the needy and feeble are shoved aside, and put at the back of the Q. Don’t forget the feeble minded weaklings who pretend to govern us subscribe to the Darwinian ethic of, ‘Only the strong survive’. In their world that means only the greedy and their corrupt underlings survive. We can be strong in ways that they will never know about. God Bless you all. Get up now and walk the walk and talk the talk.
Govts do not do planning or forward thinking. That would entail utilising brain cells. Totally alien concept to the powers that be!!!
Disgraceful Gov. has not catered for people with disabilities. Should it really matter if a person was diagnosed with a disability in the last few months as opposited to 13 months ago.
Gov Policy = Ageism and discrimination at its best.
unless they get told by the mafia bosses in brussels or the troika/IMF or the banks these lot in power couldn’t run a decent piss up on st paddys day
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