Passenger arrivals up 4% on pre-pandemic levels as travel sector benefit from full recovery

Rising by more than 20% year-on-year, increased passenger numbers have been largely reflected across Irish airlines, with Ryanair reporting after-tax profits of €1.4bn just last week

Last month, some 1,676,000 passengers arrived by air in Ireland, with the remaining 108,300 travelling by sea.

More than 1.78m people travelled to Ireland from overseas in April, with arrivals up by 4.2% on pre-pandemic levels. 

Representing a 21% increase year-on-year, figures from the Central Statistics Office show that passenger arrivals have recovered notably since travel restrictions were put in place, with air travel seeing the most pronounced increase since the pandemic.