Just over 28.1 million passengers travelled through Dublin Airport last year, marking a 231% increase on 2021 activity and an 85% recovery towards pre-Covid 2019 levels.
During December alone, 2.2 million passengers travelled through Dublin Airport – an increase of one million passengers compared with 2021 and 95% of the passenger numbers seen pre-pandemic in that month of 2019.
DAA chief executive Kenny Jacobs said: “Following two years of Covid disruption, 2022 was the year in which international travel came back very strong.
“When you consider that passenger numbers during the first two months of 2022 were very low due to uncertainty around the Omicron variant, the recovery in passenger numbers from March onwards was way beyond the expectations of even the most optimistic of travel forecasters.
“This resurgence in travel has posed challenges for Dublin Airport and airports all around the world. I’d like to pay tribute to the incredible team there, which has worked tirelessly to facilitate more than 28 million journeys over the past 12 months.
“In the year ahead, we are determined to maintain this security performance and make further improvements to the standards at Dublin Airport so that the travelling public get the service they expect.”
