{"id":588837,"date":"2026-08-10T11:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588837\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:16:32","slug":"dublin-airport-records-busiest-month-on-record-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588837\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin Airport records busiest month on record in July"},"content":{"rendered":"

July was the busiest month in Dublin Airport’s history, according to operator daa, recording more than 3.8m passengers last month.<\/p>\n

A total of 3,839,635 people travelled through the airport during the month, up 2.3 percent year-on-year.<\/p>\n

Daa said July was typically the peak month for summer travel – however this year’s numbers were boosted by people travelling to North American for the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n

The start of Ireland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union also increased passenger numbers on some routes.<\/p>\n

The rise in passenger numbers in July represented the 16th consecutive month of passenger growth at the airport.<\/p>\n

It means close to 22m people have travelled through Dublin Airport since the start of 2026, up 5.2% year-on-year.<\/p>\n

Last month the bill lifting passenger cap, which limited Dublin Airport’s passenger numbers to 32m per year, was signed into law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However as the cap had been suspended by the High Court pending a legal challenge, it had not been a factor in the airport’s 2025 passenger numbers.<\/p>\n

“On average, around 123,000 passengers walked through our doors every day of July,” said Gary McLean, managing director of Dublin Airport. “That’s the equivalent of one and a half times the capacity of Croke Park on All-Ireland final day passing through the airport in just one day, every day last month.<\/p>\n

“This high level of traffic is now the norm during the peak summer period.”<\/p>\n

However he said, despite this, the vast majority of passengers travelled through airport security in under 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

“This is testament to the hard work and dedication of our Dublin Airport teams, with thousands of people working 24\/7 across the airport campus to deliver a smooth, safe and welcoming experience for the almost four million passengers who travelled in July.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July was the busiest month in Dublin Airport’s history, according to operator daa, recording more than 3.8m passengers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-588837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}