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:

Thank you for those questions, a Leas-Chathaoirligh.

First, there should not be a cap. We now have runway infrastructure that will probably take traffic capacity at Dublin up to 60 million passengers, so the DAA is again mismanaging the process. It is this fudgy, "We have a cap at 32 million; let us apply to lift it to 40 million". The minute it gets lifted to 40 million, we will already be at 40 million passengers.