Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Impact of Passenger Cap at Dublin Airport on Ryanair's Business and Operations: Ryanair
Mr. Michael O'Leary:
An interesting analysis that is often trotted out to us is that, if Ryanair cannot get to the Dublin, we should move all the passengers to Cork and Shannon. Some 65% of the traffic on our routes is inbound and the overwhelming majority of that traffic wants to go to Dublin. Some will go on to Shannon or Cork. There are limited markets where people want to access the west, and we are serving and growing those markets through Cork, Shannon and even Knock. We have now discovered a new market in Knock where we are taking people outbound on summer holidays to Faro and the Canary Islands, but only for approximately two months of the year. The market is inbound, and we have to keep growing that market so that we can sustain our new routes, more capacity and new aircraft here going outbound.