Industry figures form Airports Council International Europe show that Dublin Airport is among a handful of leading European airports to have beaten pre-Covid passenger traffic in the first three months of this year.
The council’s latest traffic report shows that Dublin was one of five “group one” airports – those handling 25 million passengers or more a year – to beat pre-pandemic traffic totals in the first three months of the year.
The Irish gateway handled 1.9 per cent more passengers in the first quarter of this year than during the same period in 2019.
The others were Lisbon, Istanbul, Palma de Mallorca and Athens. Heathrow, a popular airport for Irish travellers, was 5.7 per cent below 2019 numbers, though the council noted that the hub re-established itself as Europe’s busiest.
Among Europe’s five biggest airports, only Istanbul, which was up 5.9 per cent on 2019, and Madrid, where first-quarter traffic equalled that year, had fully recovered from Covid curbs.
