Dublin Airport New Runway/Infrastructure.

To be fair, the article also says that that apply to the Supreme Court for leave to appeal. At the time the article was published, they had the option to continue.

What was their game here. What was the issue with a service tunnel, and how was opposing it going to be profitable for them. Not something I've looked at, but at a glance, I can't see what there game was at all.

For crying out loud! Fingal are an absolute disgrace.

FCC issue enforcement notice over cap breach. This’ll be fun

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0620/1519520-airport-passenger-cap/

But they aren't. Not yet. They still have recourse to the Courts to find the executive and board liable for breaches.

The government need to compose an urgent bill to return absolute control of state aviation infrastructure and operations to themselves in the person of the Minister for Transport and / or the IAA.

Fingal won't shut up until they are permanently muted.

I wouldn't mind but the High Court has effectively suspended the cap, pending litigation. Sounds like FCC are true to the midless box-ticking school of Irish regulation.

This is what I received from ABP on the 30th April

The file is currently with an Inspector for their report. Once this is discharged it will be moved to the Board for decision.

I only hope the final decision is an improvement on the initial one last September!

Agreed and the cap of 13,000 made no sense at all

Nobody is suggesting otherwise. However the draft decision likely included an error which if it was the final decision is neither balanced, or realistic and would seriously hamper Aerlingus’ Hub model and freight in particular.

It’s worth remembering there’s numerous airports in London, and only 1 in Dublin. The night caps and quotas at some London airports and Frankfurt and Zurich differ from the draft proposed at Dublin as their night period aren’t as long as what was proposed for Dublin in the draft. Dublin’s night cap and movement limit period covered 11pm-7am while most airports night quotas cover from 11:30pm/12am - 5/6am. Most base aircraft return from 11pm and they depart from 6am. If you limit their flying hours from Dublin, the aircraft will be removed and bases elsewhere , having a knock on effect throughout the day.

A strict night quota in operation from 11:30pm - 6am at Dublin that encourages newer aircraft during this period is the most realistic, balanced and fair approach for a capital city airport, that’s on an Island, at the edge of Europe, an hour behind most of Europe.

Even during the winter at this point, arrivals go on till about 1:20 or 1:30am, Aer Lingus's last arrivals during the summer are 2am and TUI's Rhodes flight lands at 3:20am. There needs to be room for holiday flights to land at these late times for aircraft utilisation. This isn't something unique to Dublin either, it is no where near the level at the likes of Gatwick, Manchester, Madrid, Rome or Barcelona, some of which have holiday flights landing till about 4am, basically running a 24 hour operation. People seem to forget these airports when talking about airports with night caps, non of which are really comparable to Dublin. A quota, from 12am to 6am, with 28R/10L only closed during these hours, and with an incentive for quieter aircraft, wouldn't be as much of an issue. But to be honest the south runway has been operating the way it is now for years and there's been no complaints. I personally think there should not be a cap on that.

100% This.

Those councillors are active participants (maybe even a local TD) in the residents group. Sending they the same badly drafted copy and paste objetions.

The early morning flights allow more use of the aircraft.

Yesterday EI-DUZ arrived from New York at 4:25am. It then went to Malaga and back before departing for Boston at 4:45pm.

It'd be much harder to do that sort of turn if they couldn't arrive so early.