Airport tells planners that increasing passenger cap to 40 million would involve a 30% rise in peak passenger traffic
Dublin Airport operator DAA is seeking permission to increase the passenger cap to 40 million from the current limit of 32 million.The airport operator, DAA, has filed a dossier of 12,000 pages responding to 85 areas of concern the council raised earlier this year regarding its plan to raise passenger capacity at the airport to 40 million from its current cap of 32 million and make major changes to various parts of the airport.
“The proposed development for which the applicant now seeks permission has been designed to ensure that it does not compromise the ability of the airport to expand to 55 million passengers per annum throughput at some point in the future,” according to a report by Cork-based Coakley O’Neill Town Planning.
It is also seeking to add 1,871 spaces to the long-term red car park, add two more storeys to the Terminal 2 multistorey car park and build a new 700-space staff car park as well as reconfiguring the public transport access in a new Ground Transportation Centre serviced by a dedicated bus lane. The plan will also involve changes to the junctions on the approach roads to the airport to try to ease access.
It envisages a 30 per cent increase in passengers passing through Terminal 1 at peak hours to 9,655 from 7,400 currently, with a more modest increase at Terminal 2 where peak hour numbers will rise to 5,280 from 4,920 at present, although there will also be a 60 per cent jump in the number of transferring passengers to just shy of 2,200 an hour.
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