Just 25,239 air passengers arrived during first week of level 5

A quiet Cork Airport where numbers of arrivals sank extremely low, with just 1,501 people arriving during the first week of lockdown. Picture: Larry Cummins

The level of airborne passenger traffic into and out of Ireland dropped dramatically from already historically low levels with the imposition of the level 5 Covid-19 lockdown, new figures show.

Just 25,239 people arrived into Ireland by air during the week beginning October 19, in which the latest six-week restrictions were imposed, a 61.4% reduction on the 65,418 passengers who landed here during the week beginning August 3, according to a series of parliamentary question answers delivered to Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy.