{"id":85129,"date":"2025-09-25T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/85129\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:51:07","slug":"ryanair-to-refer-dublin-airport-night-flight-rules-to-europe-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/85129\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair to refer Dublin Airport night flight rules to Europe \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryanair <\/a>hopes that the courts will refer a night-flight limit at Dublin Airport to Europe in a move that could suspend its imposition for around two years, according to the airline\u2019s chief executive, Michael O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n

Planners recently restricted flights between 11pm and 7am at the country\u2019s biggest airport to 35,672 a year to limit noise, angering airlines already grappling with a 32 million annual passenger cap there.<\/p>\n

Mr O\u2019Leary confirmed that Ryanair would go to the High Court next month to challenge the night flight decision by planning appeals body, An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la.<\/p>\n

He added that the airline hoped to get the issue referred to the European courts.<\/p>\n

Such a move could suspend the restriction for a period as the European courts weighed whether the limit breaches EU laws, after which they would have to give directions to the Irish courts.<\/p>\n

Airlines including Ryanair argue that the night-flight limit breaches various EU laws and treaties, as well as possibly the European-US open skies agreement, which gives both jurisdictions\u2019 airlines access to each other\u2019s air space and airports.<\/p>\n

The 32 million passenger cap, imposed in 2007, is suspended following a referral of that issue to Europe by the High Court.<\/p>\n

That will allow Ryanair boost winter traffic from Ireland\u2019s biggest airport this year. <\/p>\n

Mr O\u2019Leary said the court\u2019s ruling allowed the airline to base an extra jet at Dublin Airport and grow passengers by a likely 9 per cent.<\/p>\n

However, he called on the Government to axe the 32 million passenger cap imposed by planners on the airport in 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn January, nine months ago, the new Government promised to scrap the cap \u2018ASAP\u2019 yet last week we were told that it could take until next year,\u201d said O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need the Government to scrap all these mad caps,\u201d he told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Ryanair will operate 96 routes from Dublin this winter, including a new service to Rabat in Morocco.<\/p>\n

The airline also launched new corporate gift cards allowing companies to use laws allowing them to give workers up to \u20ac1,500 tax-free a-year in vouchers as bonuses.<\/p>\n

Mr O\u2019Leary expects the Court of Justice EU to deal with the 32 million passenger cap in mid 2026.<\/p>\n

Once that has ruled, the issue will go back to the High Court which will then decide on a challenge brought by Aer Lingus, Ryanair and North American carriers.<\/p>\n

On a similar timeline, he said it was likely that the European courts would deal with the nigh flight issue in mid 2027.<\/p>\n

Ryanair will take deliver of 29 new Boeing Aircraft by the end of this year. The US manufacturer has confirmed that it will begin delivering the first of the later B737 Max 10 jets to the Irish carrier in spring 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair hopes that the courts will refer a night-flight limit at Dublin Airport to Europe in a move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,26,18,19,17,1843,623],"class_list":{"0":"post-85129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dublin-airport","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-michael-oleary","14":"tag-ryanair"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}