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Transport Bulletin February 2022

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Aviation Data

Source: Dublin, Cork, Shannon, Knock and Kerry airports.

Air passenger data shows a substantial fall in passengers handled by Irish airports due to COVID-19 restrictions. Data on airport passengers is presented in table 4.1 and illustrated in figure 4.1.

The number of passengers travelling through Dublin airport in January 2022 was almost five times that of January 2021. However, the number of passengers travelling through Dublin airport in January 2022 was still 53.4% lower than January 2020 (969,467 compared with 2,082,481)

Note: Knock airport was closed from April to June 2020 and from February to May 2021. Cork Airport was closed in October 2021. Shannon and Kerry data for January 2022 was not available at the time of publication.

	Dublin
2019	2054794
2020	2082481
2021	199121
2022	969467

Table 4.1 Number of passengers handled by main airports, 2019 to 2022

Table 4.1 Number of passengers¹ handled by main airports, 2019 to 2022
	Dublin				Cork
	2019	2020	2021	2022	2019	2020	2021	2022
January	2,054,794	2,082,481	199,121	969,467	148,939	158,078	4,849	65,166
February	1,993,325	2,030,643	95,802		150,482	159,121	1,478
March	2,432,195	1,026,004	110,176		174,876	80,188	2,599
April	2,789,660	23,951	119,826		210,510	1,140	3,796
May	2,965,517	42,661	150,856		239,077	2,116	6,944
June	3,202,409	88,980	283,883		278,961	4,623	14,185
July	3,430,859	374,443	638,978		296,876	27,631	32,001
August	3,399,714	509,910	1,233,219		296,799	39,951	73,735
September	3,021,796	386,058	1,330,768		238,523	22,705	28,168
October	2,865,397	253,972	1,542,850		215,482	16,714	0
November	2,240,194	166,835	1,382,610		171,693	6,108	14,933
December	2,280,391	281,302	1,177,562		163,248	8,639	72,415
Total	32,676,251	7,267,240	8,256,651		2,585,466	527,014	255,103
	Shannon				Knock²
	2019	2020	2021	2022	2019	2020	2021	2022
January	87,016	85,974	1,214		42,413	40,272	619	13,820
February	82,497	86,800	441		45,456	45,263	0
March	100,374	43,454	667		54,700	22,436	0
April	128,840	85	186		71,563	0	0
May	160,902	17	369		73,850	0	0
June	178,680	18	9,734		77,020	0	2,077
July	183,398	14,362	23,859		88,781	8,072	9,505
August	187,029	19,871	47,540		94,907	13,707	25,307
September	166,270	11,027	53,895		76,300	5,734	34,333
October	138,218	7,907	71,853		72,299	4,661	42,943
November	104,148	1,823	63,560		55,255	1,343	33,438
December	99,050	2,247	48,844		52,899	1,044	25,805
Total	1,616,422	273,585	322,162		805,443	142,532	174,027
	Kerry³				Total
	2019	2020	2021	2022	2019	2020	2021	2022
January	20,829	21,572	1,065		2,353,991	2,388,377	206,868
February	22,231	22,699	406		2,293,991	2,344,526	98,127
March	25,546	11,492	517		2,787,691	1,183,574	113,959
April	32,171	110	667		3,232,744	25,286	124,475
May	34,213	219	935		3,473,559	45,013	159,104
June	36,150	479	2,699		3,773,220	94,100	312,578
July	40,680	6,528	5,380		4,040,594	431,036	709,723
August	39,617	8,337	20,811		4,018,066	591,776	1,400,612
September	35,721	5,103	19,235		3,538,610	430,627	1,466,399
October	31,790	3,188	27,229		3,323,186	286,442	1,684,875
November	25,151	1,342	21,588		2,596,441	177,451	1,516,129
December	25,737	1,890	14,866		2,621,325	295,122	1,339,492
Total	369,836	82,959	115,398		38,053,418	8,293,330	9,132,341
¹ Passenger numbers refer to commercial passengers only. Transit passengers are included and are counted twice (i.e. both as arriving and departing passengers)
² Knock airport was closed from April to June 2020 and from February to May 2021 and Cork airport was closed in October 2021
³ Data for January 2022 was not available at the time of publication for Kerry and Shannon airports