Source: Dublin, Cork, Shannon, Knock and Kerry airports.
COVID-19 restrictions led to a sharp fall in passengers handled by Irish airports.
The number of passengers in Dublin airport in November 2022 was one and half times that of November 2021 numbers, but 98% of the level seen in the same month in 2019 (before COVID-19). There were 2,409,802 passengers handled by the Dublin, Cork and Knock airports in November 2022 compared with 2,467,142 for the same month in 2019.
(Note: Knock airport was closed from April to June 2020 and from February to May 2021. Cork Airport was closed in October 2021. Data for Kerry and Shannon not available at time of publication.)
| Dublin | |
| 2019 | 2240194 |
| 2020 | 166835 |
| 2021 | 1382610 |
| 2022 | 2194184 |
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