Dublin International Airport, DUB

Dublin International Airport – Dublin, Ireland (IATA: DUB, ICAO: EIDW), or Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath in Irish, is operated by the Dublin Airport Authority plc. It is by far the busiest airport in Ireland and is ranked at 15 in Europe by passenger numbers for 2006 when more than 21.1 million passengers travelled through the airport.

The airport is located approximately 10 kilometres north of Dublin City in an area known as Collinstown. The airport is the headquarters of Ireland's flag carrier Aer Lingus, and Europe's largest no-frills airline Ryanair. Ireland's third airline, CityJet, is based in the nearby town of Swords. Ireland's domestic and regional airline, Aer Arann, provides domestic and several UK and European routes from Dublin, but its base is Galway Airport in the west of Ireland.

Facts and figures

The 10 busiest international routes from Dublin
London, UK
Paris, France
Manchester, UK
New York, USA
Birmingham, UK
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Frankfurt, Germany
Glasgow, UK
Malaga, Spain
Edinburgh, UK
The airport had 21.1 million passengers and around 197,000 aircraft movements in 2006.
Over 90 airlines serve the airport, with over 150 destinations (scheduled and chartered).
Around 88% of the flights are scheduled and 12% are chartered.
The country with the most flights from the airport is the UK.
The busiest short-haul route from the airport is to London-Heathrow.
The busiest continental European route from the airport is to Paris.
The busiest long-haul route from the airport is to New York.
There are 142 check-in desks at the airport.
The airport operates 24 hours a day, 364 days of the year (the airport closes on Christmas day).
There are around 22,000 car parking spaces at the airport (18,000 long term and 4,000 short term).
There are 73 aircraft stands at the airport.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines have scheduled services to and from Dublin Airport.

Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
Aer Arann (Cardiff, Cork, Donegal, Galway, Inverness, Isle of Man, Kerry, Knock, Sligo)
Aer Lingus (Alicante, Almería, Amsterdam, Athens [starts 5 June, 2007], Barcelona, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bologna, Bordeaux, Boston, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago-O'Hare, Dubai, Dubrovnik, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Faro, Frankfurt, Fuerteventura, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Gran Canaria, Hamburg, Jersey, Kraków, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Lyon, Madrid, Malaga, Manchester, Marseille, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Naples, Newcastle, New York-JFK, Nice, Orlando [starts 30 October 2007], Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Poznań, Prague, Rennes, Riga, Rome-Fiumicino, Salzburg, San Francisco [starts 28 October 2007], Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Shannon, Tenerife, Toulouse, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Vilnius [starts 29 May 2007], Warsaw, Washington-Dulles [starts 3 September 2007], Zürich)
Air Canada (Toronto-Pearson) [seasonal - resumes 15 June 2007]
Air Europa (Las Palmas)
Air France
operated by CityJet (London-City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
Air Southwest (Newquay)
Air Transat (Toronto-Pearson)
airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)
American Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare)
Arkia Israel Airlines (Tel Aviv) [Starts 2 July]
Blue1 (Helsinki)
bmi (London-Heathrow)
British Airways (London-Gatwick)
British Airways operated by Loganair (Derry)
Bulgaria Air (Bourgas, Sofia)
Centralwings (Gdansk, Katowice, Szczecin, Wroclaw)
Clickair (Barcelona)
Continental Airlines (Newark)
Czech Airlines (Prague)
Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK)
Estonian Air (Tallinn)
Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi) [starts 3 August 2007] [19]
Eurocypria Airlines (Paphos)
Finnair (Helsinki)
Flybe (Exeter, Jersey, Norwich, Southampton)
FlyGibraltar (Gibraltar) [starts April 2007]
Flyglobespan (Toronto-Hamilton) [starts 4 May 2007]
FlyLal (Palanga, Vilnius)
Futura (Alicante, Faro, Malaga, Nice, Tenerife)
Gulf Air (Bahrain)
Iberia (Madrid)
LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
LTE International Airways (Las Palmas, Lanzarote)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
Luxair (Luxembourg, Manchester)
Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
Ryanair (Aberdeen, Alghero, Alicante [starts May 2007] Almeria, Berlin-Schönefeld, Biarritz, Billund, Birmingham, Blackpool, Bologna-Forli, Bournemouth, Bratislava, Bremen [starts May 2007] Bristol, Brussels-Charleroi, Bydgoszcz [Starts May 2007] , Carcassonne, Cork, Doncaster/Sheffield, Durham-Tees Valley, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Faro, Frankfurt-Hahn, Friedrichshafen, Fuerteventura, Gdańsk [Starts May 2007], Girona, Glasgow-Prestwick, Gothenburg-City, Grenoble, Karlsruhe-Baden, Kaunas, Kraków, La Rochelle, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, Łódź, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Lübeck, Madrid, Malaga, Malmö, Malta, Manchester, Marseille, Milan-Bergamo, Murcia, Nantes, Newcastle, Nottingham/East Midlands, Oslo-Torp, Paris-Beauvais, Pisa, Porto, Poznań, Pula, Reus, Riga, Rome-Ciampino, Rzeszow, Salzburg, Seville, Stockholm-Vasteras, Tampere, Tenerife-North, Trapani, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Vitoria, Warsaw, Wroclaw)
SATA International (Ponta Delgada) [starts 4 May 2007]
Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
SAS Braathens (Oslo)
SkyEurope (Bratislava, Kraków)
Spanair (Alicante, Barcelona, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Madrid, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South)
Swiss International Air Lines (Zürich)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
US Airways (Philadelphia) [seasonal - resumes 29 May 2007]
XL Airways (Bourgas, Faro, Lanzarote, Paphos, Palma, Reus, Santorini, Skiathos) [starts May 2007]

Summary

Dublin Airport (DUB/EIDW)
Tel: +353 (0)1 814 1111, +353 (0)1 814 4092,
Fax: +353 (0)1 814 4364,
e-mail: marketing.dublin@aer-rianta.ie
website : http://www.dublinairport.com/