A decision on whether to build another runway at Dublin Airport will be made later this year.
The Dublin Airport Authority said they had a record number of passengers in 2015, with 25 million people using the facility, up 3.3 million on 2014.
But with extra numbers comes capacity issues and whether or not a new runway, which has been flagged for some time, is needed.
DAA Chief Executive Kevin Toland says it is:
“We quite clearly need another runway and what we’re doing at the moment is updating our various plans for actually how we bring on a new runway and at what time and how we go at that. So we’re working our way through that at the moment.”
He added that they have to look into a number of issues including future growth at the airport:
“We have very, very little capacity at some of the busiest times of the day, so we’ve been weighing all that up. The passenger flows and the airline flows over the next number of years all go into a complex decision making process. We’ve planning permission in 2007 which lasts for 10 years so til the end of 2017.”
The airport also announced that they’re hiring 350 people, 170 jobs have already been filled with 180 coming on stream over the next 12 months.
