Christmas flights at Dublin Airport won't be impacted despite nearing passenger limits

A daa analysis said that if the Dublin Airport passenger cap is not raised, 16,000 new jobs could be lost

Kenny Jacobs, chief executive of daa, said passenger numbers by the end of the year will be 32 million or “slightly less”.

There will be “no disruption” for people travelling through Dublin Airport this Christmas as a result of it coming precariously close to hitting its limit of 32 million passengers in a year, the chief executive of daa has said.

This limit is set under Dublin Airport’s planning permission from Fingal County Council, with the daa set to submit a new application on December 15 which it hopes will allow it to increase capacity to 40 million passengers a year. This planning application could take up to two years.