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. Eoin Kealy:

We file twice per year for the summer and winter slots. We file each individually. Last winter, we operated 6.4 million of historic seats in Dublin. We got all of those back this year. What we did not get were the extra 500,000 seats we operated on ad hoc slots, composed of 260,000 extra seats at Christmas and the extras across mid-term breaks, etc. The IAA has not approved those this year, nor will it, because they are capped.