Capacity at Dublin Airport is up 4% for the summer season, with more than half a million extra seats available this year.
The 2012 summer season, which gets under way in earnest over the Easter
Bank Holiday weekend, will see 12 new services from Dublin Airport and extra capacity on 17 existing services. This summer, Dublin has new services to both long-haul and short-haul destinations offering a huge range of choice to passengers.
Washington DC and Dubai are being added to Dublin’s existing long-haul network, which already has 13 direct scheduled services to North America and a service to Abu Dhabi. New short-haul services are being offered to Bournemouth, Budapest, Chisinau (Moldova) Dusseldorf, London Southend, Palermo, Stockholm, Verona, and Warsaw.
Extra capacity is also being added to existing services from Dublin Airport to destinations such as Brussels, Cologne, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Madrid, Geneva, Glasgow and Stockholm.
Passengers in search of summer sun can choose from a host of destinations in countries such as Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, Cyprus, Croatia, Malta and Egypt.
Welcoming the launch of the summer schedule, Dublin Airport Authority’s Chief Operations Officer, Robert Hilliard described the increase in services and additional routes as a “further endorsement from the airlines of their confidence in the facilities that are in place at Dublin Airport”.
Passengers are also impressed with the improved experience at Dublin Airport in recent years. The most recent Airports Council International (ACI) study, which measures service quality at airports, placed Dublin joint third out of 29 European airports handling between 5 million and 25 million passengers per year. In the
same study five years ago, Dublin came last.
“In just five years, Dublin Airport has moved from being bottom of the pile to joint third amongst our European peers,” Mr Hilliard said. “Our
aim to continue to improve service levels for our passengers and move even higher up the table,” he added.
Meanwhile this Easter Bank Holiday weekend, which marks the real start of the summer season, will see more than 213,000 passengers travel through Dublin Airport from Friday April 6 to Monday April 9.
Passengers are advised to check which terminal their flight is departing from BEFORE leaving
home. Aer Lingus, Etihad Airways, Emirates, Delta Airlines, Continental Airlines and US Airways operate from Terminal 2 while all other airlines operate from Terminal 1.
Passengers are advised to be in the terminal building at least 90 minutes before their flight departure time irrespective of whether they are checking in at the airport or have checked in on-line. A further 30 minutes should be factored in if passengers are using one of the long-term car parks.
Passengers are also advised to prepare for security screening in advance by removing laptops from cases, belts, outer jackets, umbrellas and sharp objects from hand luggage. This will avoid unnecessary delays at the passenger security screening area. Information regarding EU Aviation Security regulations concerning liquids is available on
Dublin Airport - Welcome to Dublin Airport and passengers are advised to familiarise themselves with these BEFORE setting out on their journey to the airport.
Dublin Airport will have Customer Care teams on duty across both terminals this bank holiday weekend; they are there to assist passengers with their journey through the airport.