{"id":99977,"date":"2025-10-02T22:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/99977\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T22:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:41:11","slug":"dublin-airport-could-get-5000-more-flights-next-summer-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/99977\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Airport could get 5,000 more flights next summer \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Airlines could add up to 5,000 more flights at Dublin Airpor<\/a>t next summer following a regulator\u2019s ruling on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The move is likely to push passenger numbers further past a 32-million limit that the gateway is already poised to break this year.<\/p>\n

Air travel regulator the Irish Aviation Authority<\/a> (IAA), said on Thursday that the airport will handle 25 extra take-off and landing slots a day in summer 2026, that is March to October.<\/p>\n

That should give airlines at Dublin scope to add up to 5,000 more flights from the airport in total, informed sources say.<\/p>\n

The resulting number of extra passengers would depend on the airlines and aircraft involved. <\/p>\n

The likely expansion comes despite an 18-year-old planning condition limiting passengers there to 32 million annually.<\/p>\n

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Numbers at Dublin could hit 36.5 million this year, with the latest indications showing that traffic last month exceeded September 2024.<\/p>\n

Ryanair<\/a>, the airport\u2019s biggest carrier, said earlier on Thursday that September passenger numbers grew 2 per cent to 19.4 million people.<\/p>\n

The High Court barred the IAA from taking the 32-million limit into account when setting the terms for the allocation of slots at Dublin, pending the outcome of a challenge by airlines.<\/p>\n

\"\"Should we put more money into Irish soccer? <\/p>\n

The authority noted on Thursday that in light of that order, the slot co-ordination parameters for Dublin did not include any seat capacity limits on airlines.<\/p>\n

The High Court has referred the issue to the European courts to first determine questions of European Union law.<\/p>\n

The Court of Justice of the European Union will have to deal with those questions before referring the case back to the Irish High Court for a full hearing.<\/p>\n

Airlines that took the High Court case, including Ryanair, Aer Lingus<\/a> and North American carriers, expect a hearing in Europe midway through next year.<\/p>\n

The challenge was against previous IAA rulings limiting the number of airline seats at Dublin Airport, in light of the 32 million cap.<\/p>\n

Had that been applied it would have cut the number of take-off and landing slots available to airlines.<\/p>\n

The IAA regulates slot allocation at Dublin. A separate independent company carries out the actual allocation to airlines seeking capacity there.<\/p>\n

An Bord Plean\u00e1la, now An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la, imposed the passenger cap in 2007 to avoid traffic jams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airlines could add up to 5,000 more flights at Dublin Airport next summer following a regulator\u2019s ruling on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2442,79,38997,26,18,19,17,12356,623],"class_list":{"0":"post-99977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-aer-lingus","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-daa","11":"tag-dublin-airport","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-irish-aviation-authority","16":"tag-ryanair"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99977","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=99977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}