Over 3.4m travelled through airport last month, with second busiest day ever on Sunday, August 13th
Some 97 out of every 100 passengers got through security screening in under 20 minutes this summer, Daa said. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish TimesJust over 3.4 million passengers travelled through Dublin Airport last month, representing a 12 per cent increase on the same month last year. New figures published by Daa on Wednesday showed passenger numbers in the eight months to August totalled 22 million, with almost half of those, or 10.
About 12 per cent more passengers have passed through Dublin Airport so far this year than during the first eight months of last year. Dublin Airport recorded its second busiest ever day in August with just shy of 119,000 passengers travelling through on Sunday, August 13th. London Heathrow and London Gatwick were the first and second most popular destinations for people travelling through Dublin this summer respectively. This was followed by Amsterdam Schipol, Malaga, Faro and London Stansted.
Meanwhile, 308,000 passengers flew to and from Cork Airport during the month of August, representing a 14 per cent increase on August 2022, making it the busiest August for passenger traffic since 2008. Tuesday, August 8th was the busiest day of August at Cork Airport and was also the busiest day of the year so far with almost 13,000 passengers flying that day.
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