Kenny Jacobs, DAA chief executive, has admitted that the Dublin Airport passenger cap imposed by Fingal County Council will be breached this year. Photograph: Tommy DicksonAccording to Jacobs, despite DAA’s best efforts to comply with the limit of 32 million passengers a year set byin 2007 as part of the planning permission for a second terminal at Dublin Airport, the threshold will be breached in 2024 with close to 33 million passengers going through its doors.
We all like to get off this damp island for a break and Jacobs is playing on the fact that most people view the cap as bonkers.
The Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show that the DAA would “have to abide by planning conditions” until a decision is made by Fingal on a stand-alone application from the company to lift the cap to 40 million passengers a year. That application has yet to be lodged.