Dublin Airport said today that August was another record-breaking month for it as a total of 3.8 million passengers passed throught the airport – a 1% increase on the same month last year. <\/p>\n
The airport said the busy August added to what was its busiest ever summer, with just over 11.3 million passengers travelling through – an additional 198,000 or 1.8% increase on the same time last year.<\/p>\n
Every day in June, July and August saw more than 100,000 passengers at Dublin Airport, it noted.<\/p>\n
The busiest day in August was Sunday, August 16, when 134,700 passengers went through the airport, making it Dublin Airport’s third-busiest day ever. Four of the airport’s ten busiest days ever were recorded during August.<\/p>\n
Gary McLean, Managing Director of Dublin Airport, said that August was the 17th consecutive month of growth in passenger numbers for the airport.<\/p>\n
He said that after several months of work and a significant investment by airport operator daa, an overhaul of the security entry point in Terminal 2 has seen the introduction of new electronic boarding pass scanners.<\/p>\n
A new much-improved Fast Track facility in Terminal 2 was also introduced and the continued rollout of landside improvements for public transport users, including the addition of a new coffee truck in the Terminal 1 bus park.<\/p>\n
“Through the first eight months of the year, a total of 25.6 million passengers have travelled through Dublin Airport, which is 5% higher than in the same period last year. We’re expecting the remaining four months of the year to remain busy, not least with the ongoing facilitation of lots of flights in and out of Ireland in connection with the EU Presidency,” Mr McLean added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin Airport said today that August was another record-breaking month for it as a total of 3.8 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-619489","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\/619489","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=619489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}