Dublin Airport New Runway/Infrastructure.

Heathrow would need a single terminal for US flights to get CBP, which wont happen.

Mullin's brainfart may happen, but it'll destroy US aviation if it does.

40? Wow.

I suppose the pattern of pax throughput is not sustained in the way it is in other areas. Also, there's no early morning wave. Maybe it's less attractive for commercial entities as a result.

Maybe, but I assume that flight timings by US carriers are mostly aimed at also enabling connection with banks of flights at the US end. If you arrive in the US at a late hour, options in that regard are going to be more limited. (The rumours are that the current EI late departures to BOS and JFK are not heavily booked, so that is at least an indicator of customer preference as to travel times.)

To overnight aircraft at DUB would work if US operators had daytime eastbounds to Ireland, which currently they don't. Otherwise they would be leaving an aircraft to sit here for the best part of a day before leaving.

I like daytime eastbound flights. I used the Aer Lingus JFK one a few times when it existed.

Was meant to go before government in May which the US DOT were satisfied with.

Another US DOT update due tomorrow after the last 30 day extension.

Pushed out again to the 6th July obviously to allow Darragh O'Brien to bring forward the bill on Tuesday week.

New Airside Operations base.

How many dozens of time has the imminent cabinet and/or legislative process for the cap removal been in the news? It's all endless process, the only newsworthy event will be when the actual removal is signed into law.

No wonder we can't do infrastructure when something as simple as permission to use existing infrastructure properly takes years and years.😡

each time it passes a stage in the process it’s framed by the media as approved overall rather than just approved at that stage proceeding to the next stage.

Worth the wait as long as its legally tight which seems to be the case, how we ended up here in the 1st place reflects Ireland's approach to critical infrastructure!

This cap farce is beyond ridiculous. It’s no wonder the country’s in a mess with this type of carry on.

If you think this is being done efficiently so be it but I beg to differ.

The cap was first reached in 2019. There’s been 3 governments since the first breach - granted covid. The first government did nothing, the second point blank refused to intervene, and the third are moving at a snails pace. 7 years on and it’s still not over the line and the airport is looking at another year with a cap in place.

The planning application to raise it is stuck in the system for what will be 3 years come December 2026 with FCC expected to rule in Q1 2027. No doubt it will go to ACP adding another 2 years onto the timeline and possible court cases after that. ~ 6 years for a planning application. Not to mention the night flights cap which first entered the planning system in 2020 and is still not sorted.

We’ve discussed previous governments failures to address the cap in depth. The current government are a year and a half in power give or take and it’s looking like it’ll be another year before they will issue an order to remove or raise it. Meanwhile the US DOT are breathing down their necks and an ECJ ruling is imminent which is likely to go in favour of the cap. What happens then?

Some of the airlines told the Oireachtas transport committee they first brought up the cap in the mid 2010s.

7 years after the first breach in 2019, 3 governments later, 3 planning applications later - 2 withdrawn and one stuck in the system, I can safely say that points to a broken system and daa, fcc, previous and current governments are all responsible. It’s nonsense. You’d be hard pressed to find another country that could make a bigger mess out of a planning condition that was never meant to constrain the airport.

I'm sure the AG would have a different opinion but the new legislation will take time to implement, another step in the right direction be it slowly but steady.

If the Greens were still in government nothing would have progressed so lets be happy its progressing and in fairness to Darragh O'Brien he has fought internal resistance to removing the cap.

It’s a clever piece of legislation. Obviously the legal advice is that they couldn’t just blanket remove the cap, so they’ve brought legislation that allows daa to apply to Minister for Transport to remove any condition imposed by Fingal County Council relating to passenger caps.

The Minister has to consult and allow An Comisiun Pleanala examine any environmental impact assessment. It also means that this can be used any time FCC decide to impose a cap, while remaining compliant with European law.