Dublin airport is expected to handle nearly 30m passengers this year as fifth best-served airport in Europe serving North America.

The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) has reported the airport’s busiest-ever July on record with 112,200 flights in total including both aggregated total terminal movements and North Atlantic Communications flights and overflights. As such, the IAA says this marks a significant increase of +2.2% over July 2016.

Meanwhile, international arrivals and departures relating to the commercial terminal traffic for Shannon, Dublin and Cork airports was reported to have risen by +3.3% in July 2017, when compared to July 2016.

NEW ROUTES OUT OF DUBLIN AND CORK

The IAA’s analysis of North Atlantic Communications flights (Europe /US Flights) saw an increase of +5.6% in July 2017, when compared to July 2016. There was also an increase of +0.8% in Ireland’s overflight traffic movements – flights which do not land in Ireland – during July 2017, in comparison to July 2016.

The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) has reported the airport’s busiest-ever July on record.

Commenting on the results, Eamonn Brennan, CEO at the IAA said: “The industry is continuing to grow. We are seeing new routes out of all our airports in 2017 and through Irish airspace and we are continuing to work hard to safely facilitate this demand so we can help keep the expansion going.

“Our systems and people will cope with these increases. We operate a state-of-the-art and very reliable air traffic management system, which has the capacity to handle more traffic in the years ahead.”

Separating the figures for all three airports Individually, the IAA said that commercial terminal flights at Dublin grew by +4.1%, with an average of 677 daily commercial movements at Dublin. By contrast, Cork’s passenger traffic rose by 2.6% with an average of 69 commercial movements.

Lastly, commercial terminal flights at Shannon were down by -4.1% with an average of 63 commercial daily movements.