Dublin Airport celebrated the opening of its new northern runway on Wednesday 24 August. The first flight to use the new runway was flight FR1964 to Eindhoven, operated by Ryanair’s 737 MAX 8-200 (registration EI-HAW), which departed at 12:10 local time, according to flightradar24.com. Construction of the 3,100-metre runway began in 2016 and was mostly […]
August 25, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
One of Europe’s fastest growing airports before the pandemic, DUB is soaring once again with new routes, new airlines and a new runway due to go live this year. As Ireland’s main international gateway, DUB has a major impact on the Irish economy; the connectivity it provides underpins trade, tourism and foreign direct investment. According […]
June 21, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America
Ireland’s busiest airport is seeing traffic recover rapidly in 2022. Though passenger numbers were down 52% in January compared with 2019, the latest figures for April show that demand is now at 85% of the level it was three years ago, in other words, down just 15%. Schedule data provided by the airlines suggests that […]
May 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
When Stobart Air collapsed in mid-June, one of the routes it had been operating (on behalf of Aer Lingus) was a Public Service Obligation (PSO) connection between Dublin in the east of Ireland and Donegal in the far north-west of Ireland. Although only a 225-kilometre flight, the road journey between the two is at least […]
July 29, 2021 | Latest Route News +