SECOND RUNWAY TAKES OFF
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passengers. The Government gave the go-ahead for the scheme in 2007 but it was hit by the economic collapse.
The airport’s €600million Terminal 2 opened in 2010 fuelling expansion and pleas for another runway before the Government resurrected the project in 2016.
The main airstrip is effectively full at peak times every day following a 45% increase in flyers since 2014.
North Runway will support the creation of 31,200 jobs and €2.2billion in additional economic activity by 2043.
More than 31 million passengers passed through Dublin Airport last year, with new routes opening in 2019 to Shenzhen in China, four areas in North America, and Ukraine.
The DAA hopes the North Runway will allow further expansion, with connections from the capital expected to rise by a third within 10 years of opening.
The new airstrip will be located almost 1.7km north of the current main one at
Dublin Airport.
Once it is built a nine-month period of commissioning will take place.
The main runway opened 30 years ago and it has been cited as a lynchpin of the Irish economy
AIRPORT YESTERDAY
Leo Varadkar and Shane Ross yesterday during that period. Annual traffic has grown from five million flyers in 1989 to a more than 31.5 million passengers last year.
Homes will be deemed worthless & we won’t be able to live here SHEELAGH MORRIS