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THE IRISH AVIATION (IAA) has proposed implementing a seat capacity limit of 25.2 million at Dublin Airport for the Summer 2025 scheduling season.
The Summer 2025 scheduling season will run from 30 March to 25 October.
The IAA is responsible for identifying and determining the capacity at Dublin Airport and setting the consequent parameters for slot allocation.
It said that in doing so, “the IAA is required to take account of all relevant technical, operational and environmental constraints”.
This includes a passenger cap of 32 million, as set out in the 2007 planning conditions for the development of Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport.
In a statement this evening, IAA said: “To take account of the capacity constraint represented by this planning condition, the IAA proposes to implement a seat capacity limit of 25.2 million seats for the Summer 2025 scheduling season.”
The proposal will make next summer’s scheduling season the second one in which a seat cap is implemented to take account of the 32 million passenger cap.
For Winter 2024, running from 26 October 2024 to 29 March 2025, the seat cap is 14.4 million.
IAA said this Summer 2025 proposal would result in a total seat capacity of 39.6 million across the two seasons.
“The seat cap is greater than the passenger cap as it takes account of expected load factors (how many passengers are expected on each flight relative to the total number of seats on the aircraft), and an adjustment for transfer passengers,” explained an IAA spokesperson.
The IAA added that it anticipates demand for slots for the Summer 2025 season “would significantly exceed the proposed seat cap”.
Air carriers who have operated a series of slots of five weeks or longer in the Summer 2024 season would be given priority.
The IAA added that, like Winter 2024, its proposal “would result in very little, if any, available capacity for new slot requests, or for ad hoc slot requests, for passenger flights using the capacity of Terminal 1 or Terminal 2 during the Summer 2025 scheduling season”.
It said this “flows as a consequence of the planning condition”.
The IAA said it has no power to “amend or revoke planning conditions” and that it is “not for the IAA to assess the merits or otherwise of the condition itself”.
The IAA is holding a consultation on today’s draft decision, and has invited interested parties to make written submissions by email to consultation@iaa.ie by 26 September.
A final decision on the Summer 2025 capacity will be made next month.
The operator of Dublin Airport, DAA, said it will review the details of the proposal.
A spokesperson added that DAA “fully understand the disappointment that will be felt by the airlines already operating at Dublin who want to grow, and airlines that want to come here but can’t get slots”.
DAA CEO Kenny Jacobs said “we totally get that losing significant seats from the summer 2025 schedule has real consequences for airlines, people working at the airport and the travelling public, as well as knock-on impacts on tourism, jobs and the wider economy”.
He added that “we are between a rock and a hard place” and that this is “no longer just an airport or a planning issue, it is now an Ireland issue”.
He pointed to recent Fáilte Ireland figures which showed 53% of industry providers had fewer customers this summer than last.
“Airlines are allocating aircraft to other countries where they can grow,” said Jacobs.
He added: “We welcome efforts by the government to find a solution to the impasse while we wait for planning to lift the passenger cap to 40 million a year, which is in line with national aviation policy, the Fingal Development Plan and the Dublin Airport Local Area Plan.
“Until this happens, we have to support the IAA’s draft decision to cut seats despite the consequences for Ireland.”
A DAA spokesperson added: “As the Winter 2024/25 cuts did not go far enough to prevent terminal passenger numbers in 2024 exceeding the 32 million planning condition, DAA has asked the High Court to intervene, and the case will be heard on 3 December”.
Meanwhile, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary called on Transport Minister Eamon Ryan to “order IAA to approve additional slots for Dublin airlines in Winter 2024, and again in Summer 2025”.
O’Leary said this would allow Ryanair and other airlines “to add extra flights this Winter for Leinster Rugby matches, Lapland Santa Claus flights, and for Irish families returning home to Dublin at Christmas”.
He called the passenger cap “idiotic” and said that it was implemented “because of concerns in 2007 that road traffic around Dublin airport would collapse when traffic reached 32 million passengers”.
O’Leary said the proposal would cut Dublin Airport’s traffic by 1 million seats in Summer 2025.
“Irish tourism cannot afford to lose 1m visitors in Summer 2025 simply because Transport Minister Eamon Ryan has failed to act,” said O’Leary.
He added: “If Eamon Ryan won’t put Irish transport and Irish tourism first, then he should resign his Ministry and allow somebody competent to do the job.
“Alternatively, An Taoiseach Simon Harris should intervene and insist that the Government issues a Ministerial Direction to the IAA to allow Dublin Airport to continue to grow while the DAA and Fingal CoCo go through the planning process to scrap this idiotic 17 year old traffic cap.”
Alan Kelly….. the final nail in the Labour coffin
@Tjamr: nooooo,shur what harm can he do,he’s never there .
@Tjamr: they will get even less votes next time around with him as leader.. Don’t know what Labour are thinking
@Ross: he hasn’t been elected yet. I’m sure Labour Party members are well aware of the mistake they would be making by electing him. They can’t be that unsavvy. Or…..
@Tjamr: Wrong man . Will always be tarred with water and housing legacy
@Tjamr: He is in a nutshell why Labour are toast, water charges for the champagne socialists lol, tax people to death and the money goes into the usual parasites pockets, they are no better then FFG.
@Tjamr: I think he will be box office in opposition and will thrive like young Gilmore a few years back. Problem is everyone is in opposition at present?
@alan: he doesnt think what he has done were mistakes. His arrogance would be a nail in the coffin alright
@Tjamr: Alan Kelly has seen the light;
@Tjamr: 2 fools for the price of one
@Tjamr: Seemingly not , now their dragging back Aodhan O’ Riordain . If I remember correctly he didn’t get voted in the last election & so joined the Seanad which he had previously wanted abolished! Ya couldn’t make it up!
@David Glynn: let’s not forget when he announced rent controls but gave plenty of notice so the landlords could get one last rent increase in before the measures took effect. Pure mule.
@Tjamr: Whoever you are anonymous smart arse you must you must be delighted that your stupid predictable comment has so many likes.
Well the party returned 6 TDs and has 4 Senators including two who reclaimed their seats and 59 Councillers. So no funeral service needed. On the don’t disrespect mandates narrative you got that wrong. A non violent party with a proud tradition going back to 1912 it has learned the lesson not to be the rescue service again when FF collapse the economy.Twice bitten
I, for one, am going back to Labour under a new leader.
They deserve a chance and if the trolls don’t like them well vote for someone else
@David Glynn: 59 councillors sounds pretty impressive until you realise there are 949 of them
As you seem like a low IQ individual I’ll do the maths for you, that’s 6.2%
@Vin: Is that short for vinegar. Unlike you when I went to school I paid attention. Its more than People before Profit who like you are adept at being d heads.Join the throng of lefty voters who are intellectually challenged. You need a pinch of salt.
Goodbye labour
@Ciaran Goggins: ill always remember being in a water protest outside the dail banging on my drum and kelly coming out just after labour election loss 2016 to 7 tds (no ministerial car). I started slow drumming and shouting bye bye …bye bye …bye bye
@Matthew O’Kane:
I was there as well and the satisfaction was fantastic to see this man and his party decimated.
Labour have lost any scrap of respect they ever earned and as long as there are any of the old guard the party will only go one way.
Not one of them got in on a first count , in fact if it wasn’t for transfer votes they wouldn’t have any seats.
I wouldn’t like to see this once proud party being destroyed because I believe we need them.
They need to start from the grassroots again.
This Kelly fella has been chasing that rusty crown for years and was perhaps the most hated man in Ireland (next to hogan)
@Matthew O’Kane: i was thinking the same thing when Ruth coppinger wasn’t elected, was a great day for country.
@Ciaran Goggins: they are gone already.
@Matthew O’Kane: wouldn’t you be better off getting a job and provide for your family instead of living off us, drums my ar*e
Mr Irish water great stuff
@JJandtim Dwyer: that lad couldn’t organise a session in a brewery! He will finish off what Joan the moan started in finishing off the party and good riddance!!
Lab our will never be forgiven for what they let FG do to the people
@John Hartigan: but SF will!!!!
@John Hartigan: yes, because Labour was the majority party in government and could call the shots, if you’ll excuse the sinn fein expression.
A TD PROTECTING HIS INCOME AND LAVISH EXPENSES
Kelly, the face of water charges, hope he gets it,they were not thinking of working class families when they tried to ram water charges down our throats. The public will never trust labour again and keep working to wipe them out.
“I won (glug glug glug glug)” exclaimed the new captain of the Titanic….
@The Risen: alan kelly some fella his brothers big into water privatisation i hear, hes for austerity i hear that kelly fella loves to bailout banks i hear that alan kelly seems a perfect fit for head snout
How far they have fallen
Sad day for Labour Party… What a tosser
Why doesn’t Alan Kelly just go join FG, he is FG through and through FFS. He has never supported the working classes he claims to represent.
Wise. Needs to concentrate on holding onto his seat for the next election in 2020.
@David Shiels: like being asked to.pick between diarrhea or vomiting.
If Labour really want to show they care about the ordinary worker again then I’m not sure the man who tried to turn public water into a private commodity is the person to lead that.
@Rochelle: I’ve always wondered which wealthy individual would make the Irish Water public utility into a private business and then screw everyone? Maybe some shady individual in the background of FFG & Labour dangling the puppet strings for a few crumbs?
Let’s have AK…
Should be the end then..
Last time I check the issue and reason why he’s currently no leader was because no one liked him.
@Shawn O’Ceallaghan: typical troll comment
@Margaret Mcgarry: usually I’d agree with you Margaret but really it’s true no one likes Alan Kelly
@Bananaquit: really if you say so are you on your lunch break
@Margaret Mcgarry: nobody 2nd his last run
Failed to make the Tipperary quota in 2016 GE… Failed to make the Tipperary quota in 2020 GE… Leadership material all right !!
Pity the people that live in Alan Kelly’s constituency…oh hang on, they voted him back in. As you were.
@Ricky: He didn’t get the quota. Slunk in on transfers.
CLOWN
Not a chance.
Alan ‘The Meter’ Kelly let’s never forget Shame on labour
The facial expressions of every party member in that photo really says a lot
I really dislike Alan “power is a drug” Kelly
I think i saw them meeting in a phone box earlier on today
He’s also come out as Heisenberg
Jaysus the head on him!!
What a clown!
Who knows Alan just might turn it around.
@DERRY1973: That’s taking optimism to a whole new level
Now I’m a former Labour party supporter and also agree with comments re IW charges (I was on big protests before!) but just want to be objective here.As a new SF voters,I think all parties should be allowed a chance to develop and grow,even change policies and Labour should be allowed to do the same.Alan Kelly did an excellent job being vice chairman of PAC plus on Health Committee.He was tremendous help to those affected by Cervical Check scandal on all Committees &in Dail and as someone who lost a close relative to cancer and close relative who had cancer treatment,I know how invaluable support is.
We caught a glimpse ,when votes been counted, of the families of those who put themselves forwards for Election and a glimpse of the ordinary man and woman behind the prospective politican.Now I’m always attacking bad policies but try not to attack the person otherwise you lose whatever argument you’re trying to make.
So wishing him good luck with transforming the party and if there are things for politicans to learn from the General Election is :to listen,no spin or spoof, identify the real issues affecting people and put forwards real solutions.
@Melissa Mahony: You’re ugly
@Nuala Mc Namara: You casually claim that you’re always attacking bad policies and then say you’re a new SF voter in the same post. That’s a bit of a contradiction in terms.
@Damon16: SF don’t have any bad policies,Damon
@Nuala Mc Namara: something that’s impossible is inherently a bad policy. They made a lot of promises they knew they wouldnt be held to account for.
If I promise a free lambo for every household is that a good policy, or is it made up nonsense
@Vin: Give examples of SF’s ‘impossible’ policies!
LOL
If Elected Kelly , will change the name of the so called Labour party to Baby Blueshirts. An apt name for them.
They taught they were funny and we were stupid enough to pay water tax for Fine gael denis o brien metre scam and the giv him the utility like topaz siteserve actavo esat tv licence independent news and media aib/ boi debt write offs by taxpayer banks etc
But it wiped them out thank God
@Tom o brien: best comment yet…. So articulate and to the point….. Not!!
Hold it. Sounds like someone from the Gunfight at the OK Corral.
@Martin O’Reilly: isn’t Aodhan against building houses in Dublin
This is the nail in the coffin for labour.
A complete Cvnt
The puss on him
He’s the worst td ever
@Adrienne Howard Maher: Wolves are some team at the moment
@Adrienne Howard Maher: How Dare you! what about the other Liebour Parasites. Education is the great Liberator? Rory Quinn increased College fees after signing a pledge not to. Omadan O Riordan and Kelly, are like two Baldy Men fighting over a Comb.
Get ta fxxx
Thought it was the title for his new rap song there for a minute
I think Ged and Alan are good guys….
A former Labour minister In a FineGael led Govt who was hell bent on implementing a cruel FineGael inspired austerity tax that involved doubly taxing working people for one public they’ve been paying for all their lives.
He might feel the apologies are done with and he may have spoken the words but I don’t feel the sincerity.
But if it finishes this Labour Party for once and for all it’s probably the best move.
Two Clown’s totally out of touch with the working people in this Country.
Delighted that Alan has announced his leadership bid. Alan will bring his unique style of honest talking and directness to the role. I welcome a new chapter for the Labour Party.
@Gerry Ashe: Quality sarcasm – bravo
@Gerry Ashe: Let’s hope its the last chapter though.
If Labour had rebuilt years back and won more seats in the recent GE it may have offered better options for gov formation so it’s important that they do rebuild. However they need to rebuild as a left party with working class roots and so far they have failed to do that. To be fair it’s a difficult task but it could be achieved by getting into government and showing that they can be trusted to defend workers rights, assuming they will of course.
Alan Kelly v Aodhán Ó Ríordáin though, FFS, is that all you have Labour? – I woudn’t have either of them even in the party. Send Kelly to FG and O’Riordain needs a brain transplant before he should be let out again.
@Eddie O’Neill: while they were busy hammering the working class in conjunction with their buddies in Fine Gael, Sinn Fein stole their clothes and they’ll never get them back.
@Gerry Ryan deG: they need to get them back, for all our sakes.
The armchair journalists and critics seem to have loads of time on their hands criticising and criticising and oh yea criticising .
@Margaret Mcgarry:
To be fair Margaret, he attracts a lot of it and its mostly warranted. Its part and parcel of public life, being scrutinised in the media.
@Lotus: and we have our doubts as to is actually running sf. But the same applies here. As has been pointed out, kellys brother and his cronies, and their business are the problem here
going by the journals pictures the 2 boys could pass as twins
Mr. Politically correct Virtue signaler in chief, Aodhan the Amadan , a complete dose .
No wonder Labour are and will b toast
If he can get Labour back to the basics,he can re build his party, Best of Luck
@Eddie Walsh: your brave saying that . Wait for the backlash from the demented
What planet is Kelly on ?
We were at his mercy when he was minister in the FG government.
He took Labour from 33 TD,s to 7
What more does he need to do to destroy Labour?
Alan Kelly “The Minister for Water” Even after Labours disastrous G/E in 2016 He was still on the airwaves banging on about how Water needed to be paid for by the users…. i.e. Us, the Taxpayers!!!! Labour deserve what they get if they elect him.
Labour tds and members have a think about joining the progressive Democrats. That’s where the future lies.
Will he get a seconder this time?
AK has delivered jobs in Tipp, has the robustness and anger needed for the Labour leader job. Didn’t get my vote, mind!
@john mounsey: It’s a pity Kelly thinks Tipperary ends at the Horse and Jockey. Labour the party who brought armed Gardai on to the streets of Clonmel(where the party was founded) because schoolchildren were protesting against education cuts,and then refused to face the people of the same town before the 2016 election. He needs a hole drilled in his head to let the bullsh!t out.
@David Kennedy: Nah! I think he’s doing ok without it.
Jesus, can someone tell the Shinnerbots that the election is over? The fact they’re getting so wound up about Kelly before he’s even given the job suggests he must be doing something right.
sweet Christ
Like two bald men, fighting for the comb
Aodhan is a good man. Not to sound too parish-pump-politicky, but he’s done great work in the community. He’s also a really, really nice guy. Hope he gets it.
The labour Party has let down the Irish Working Class since 1922 by hopping into bed with FF & FG rather than, Like the UK & Australia, maintain strong Left Wing policies to protect & benefit the working class.
To an outsider it seems absurd that Labour is not the first party to offer support to a SF led Government.
This is top national news and needs even more coverage – comments, analysis, projections, controversy. After there are five TDs in this party.
Cake or death ??? I’ll take the death please –cake I meant the cake.
Face like a slapped arse
Will all 7 members of labor get a vote?? I
Akin to looking for the job of Captain of Titanic, the only way is down.
They can hold their first meeting around my rather impressive 6-seater dining table. The two end chairs have arms too. I’ll supply the glasses of water Free Of Charge.
The thing is Mr. Kelly, this country tends not to forget. Eamonn Gilmore promised to change governance when elected into power, but he knew and the rest of your party, including yourself, knew that was going to be an impossible task. All the people of Ireland can see is politions looking to line their own pockets with massive wages and even bigger pensions. Look at what Enda Kenny is entitled too… it’s a total and utter disgrace what you and the rest of your political friends are paid, and yet our health system is like third world. People living on the streets. You and your Labour party have a long hard road in front you and deservedly so!!
So many negative comments about Kelly here – all justified, but he is in fact the lesser of the two evils. Amadan O’ Riordan is even worse than Kelly.
Alan kelly
It’s like two idiots vying to be Captain of The Titanic as it goes down.
Will all 7 members of labor get a vote??
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