Passenger numbers were up 4.5 per cent in Dublin Airport, with three 120,000 passenger days in May, while Cork Airport passenger numbers were up 17 per cent. 

Kenny Jacobs, chief executive of daa, the operator of Dublin and Cork airports, said that the opening months of 2025 “the impact of having an out-of-date passenger cap on Ireland's main gateway."

Cork Airport's passenger traffic was up 14 per cent last month compared to January 2023

Low-cost Spanish airline, Vueling, Jordi Pla Pintre is one of a number of airline executives to call on Fingal County Council to raise the current 32 million passenger per annum cap at Dublin airport to 40 million passengers per annum.

Daa's total turnover for the first six months of 2023 was €458.8 million