Dublin Airport announced it handled almost 1.9 million passengers in May an increase of 9% on prior year according to the Dublin Airport Authority. All market segments recorded a positive passenger trend with increased activity in Summer schedule.
The North America market continues to perform very strong passenger volumes to and from North America grew by 18%, as almost 176,000 passengers travelled on this sector in May reflecting the full run effect of Aer Lingus expanded summer schedule offering increased connectivity from a number of European cities to US via Dublin and launch of seasonal services by Air Transat and US Airways.
Passenger volumes to and from continental Europe rose by 10% with more than 1 million passengers travelling to European destinations last month growth in this segment driven by Heineken Cup Finals generating 30,000 additional passengers on weekend of 17th May and Tarom Airlines launching a new three times weekly service from Dublin to Bucharest on 22nd May.
Passenger volumes on Domestic routes increase by 5% to almost 7,000 passengers.
In other international market segment including routes the Middle East traffic increased by 7% to almost 39,000 passengers and traffic to the UK was up by 4% to over 608,000 passengers.
More than 7.3 million passengers have used Dublin Airport in the first five months of this year, a 4% increase on the same period in 2012.
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