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
Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
We had a briefing from the Department of Transport on the capacity constraint. It is not really about the buildings. Mr. Jacobs referred earlier to the building now being different from what it was in 2008 because we now do self-check-ins, bag drop and all the other things we used to have to queue for, which people can now do at home, whether by printing their boarding pass, having it on their phone, dropping their bag in advance and so on. The big 32 million question was about getting into and out of the airport, as opposed to what happens once you go through the door of the building, let alone the difference between landside and airside. Mr. Jacobs is saying the DAA is going to do all this work to handle 40 million, but it is really on the land side that the DAA needs to improve capacity. How is it doing that?
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