Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Management of Passenger Numbers at Dublin Airport: Discussion

Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

There is a regulated process and within the regulated process, scheduled commercial flights take priority. If charter operators and private jets say they have nothing in the schedule but they just want to come to the airport, it will be in a different place. We might be saying that they cannot do that. We currently say that to some people operating private jets, even with a small number of passengers on board.

On the western side of the airport, and the idea of having a third terminal there, I think a third terminal at Dublin Airport is 20 million passengers away and 20 years away. Ultimately, a third terminal, if it is developed, will be alongside the existing two terminals that we have, not on the western part of the airfield. Anyone taking that view should consider public transport. We want to go faster getting to the eastern front door that we have today at the airport. Getting public transport to the far side of the airport would take decades. For me, we do not need to talk about a third terminal yet. That is really when one is looking at Dublin Airport having 60 million passengers. It would be alongside the two existing terminals because that is where public transport will be.

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