Dublin Airport Passengers Up 6% to 20.2m In 2013

The car park at Terminal One, Dublin Airport The car park at Terminal One, Dublin AirportPassenger numbers at Dublin Airport increased by 6% to 20.2 million last year, as an extra 1.1 million people used the airport.The significant growth in passenger numbers was led by a record-breaking performance on transatlantic traffic, which saw a 13% increase during 2013.As a result of the strong growth in passenger numbers, Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) is paying a €5.6 million rebate in airport charges to a total of 40 airlines that increased their business at Dublin Airport during 2013.“Dublin Airport had an excellent performance last year,” said Dublin Airport Managing Director, Vincent Harrison. “Passenger numbers increased across all areas of the business and Dublin Airport’s growth outperformed the European average in every month of 2013.”Mr Harrison said the performance of the transatlantic market was particularly pleasing last year. “We saw a record 1.9 million people flying between Dublin and North America last year, as our airline customers added extra capacity to existing routes and we also saw the start of a new daily American Airlines service to JFK in New York.”Long-haul traffic to the Middle East grew by just over 13% last year and passenger numbers travelling to and from Dublin Airport’s largest markets of Europe and the UK also increased. Transfer traffic saw strong growth during 2013, as transfer passengers increased by 36% to almost 550,000.Last year was Dublin Airport’s third successive year of growth and the airport’s busiest year since 2009. This year is expected to bring further growth, according to Mr Harrison. “We’re very positive about 2014, as we already have 16 new services scheduled and significant expansions of some existing services have also been announced.”Aer Lingus is launching services to San Francisco, Toronto, Hanover and Pula, Ryanair will have nine new services including Lisbon, Prague, Bucharest, Basel, Marrakech, and Almeria, Canadian airline WestJet will have a new route from Dublin to St John’s, Newfoundland, and Air Canada rouge will operate its new Dublin-Toronto service.

Dublin Airport	New Services For 2014
Destination	Airline
Almeria (Spain)	Ryanair
Bari (Italy)	Ryanair
Basel (Switzerland)	Ryanair
Bucharest (Romania)	Ryanair
Chania (Crete)	Ryanair
Comiso (Sicily)	Ryanair
Hanover (Germany)	Aer Lingus
Lisbon (Portugal)	Ryanair
Luxembourg (Luxembourg)	Luxair
Marrakech (Morocco)	Ryanair
Prague (Czech Republic)	Ryanair
Pula (Croatia)	Aer Lingus
San Francisco (USA)	Aer Lingus
St Johns (Canada)	WestJet

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