L’anno scorso l’aeroporto di Dublino ha utilizzato un record di 36,4 milioni di passeggeri

At first glance that’s obviously in excess of the passenger gap, but the numbers get a bit funky because of how the passenger cap has evolved.

DAA takes the position that transfer passengers don’t count. Not unreasonable since the passenger cap is supposed to be about road traffic around the airport. They have also argued that certain other users of the airport who don’t use terminals one and two should be excluded since the cap was about T1 and T2. Little harder to square that with the first argument but they’re a small group as I understand it. I think they bring the number down somewhere between 2 and 2.5 million. So still above.

Interestingly, DAA had previously taken the position that it could do about 36 million with minimal upgrades, and about 40 with the first batch of bits and pieces. So those may have been conservative estimates of their capacity?

It’s a great airport.

Were all trying to get the f outta here