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

Air passenger data shows a dramatic 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, Cork, Shannon, Knock and Kerry airports in March 2021 is 90.4% lower than March 2020. Note: Knock airport was closed in February and March 2021.

The total number of passengers handled by those airports in the first quarter of 2021 fell from 5,916,477 to 418,954 a drop of 92.9% when compared with the same period in 2020. The number of passengers travelling through Dublin airport in March 2021 increased by 15.0% compared to the previous month.

	Dublin	Cork	Shannon	Knock	Kerry
Percentage change	-92.1	-97.8	-98.9	-99.4	-96.4

Table 4.1 Number of passengers handled by main airports, 2019 to 2021

Table 4.1 Number of passengers¹ handled by main airports, 2019 to 2021
	Dublin				Cork				Shannon
	2019	2020	2021	% change	2019	2020	2021	% change	2019	2020	2021	% change
January	2,054,794	2,082,481	199,121	-90.4	148,939	158,078	4,849	-96.9	87,016	85,974	1,214	-98.6
February	1,993,325	2,030,643	95,802	-95.3	150,482	159,121	1,478	-99.1	82,497	86,800	441	-99.5
March	2,432,195	1,026,004	110,176	-89.3	174,876	80,188	2,599	-96.8	100,374	43,454	667	-98.5
April	2,789,660	23,951		-99.1	210,510	1,140		-99.5	128,840	85		-99.9
May	2,965,517	42,661		-98.6	239,077	2,116		-99.1	160,902	17		-100.0
June	3,202,409	88,981		-97.2	278,961	4,623		-98.3	178,680	18		-100.0
July	3,430,859	374,443		-89.1	296,876	27,631		-90.7	183,398	14,362		-92.2
August	3,399,714	509,957		-85.0	296,799	39,951		-86.5	187,029	19,871		-89.4
September	3,021,796	386,058		-87.2	238,523	22,705		-90.5	166,270	11,027		-93.4
October	2,865,397	253,972		-91.1	215,482	16,714		-92.2	138,218	7,907		-94.3
November	2,240,194	166,835		-92.6	171,693	6,108		-96.4	104,148	1,823		-98.2
December	2,280,391	281,317		-87.7	163,248	8,639		-94.7	99,050	2,247		-97.7
Total	32,676,251	7,267,303		-77.8	2,585,466	527,014		-79.6	1,616,422	273,585		-83.1
	Knock				Kerry				Total
	2019	2020	2021	% change	2019	2020	2021	% change	2019	2020	2021	% change
January	42,413	40,272	619	-98.5	20,829	21,572	1,065	-95.1	2,353,991	2,388,377	206,868	-91.3
February	45,456	45,263	0	-100.0	22,231	22,699	406	-98.2	2,293,991	2,344,526	98,127	-95.8
March	54,700	22,436	0	-100.0	25,546	11,492	517	-95.5	2,787,691	1,183,574	113,959	-90.4
April	71,563	0		-100.0	32,171	110		-99.7	3,232,744	25,286		-99.2
May	73,850	0		-100.0	34,213	219		-99.4	3,473,559	45,013		-98.7
June	77,020	0		-100.0	36,150	479		-98.7	3,773,220	94,101		-97.5
July	88,781	8,072		-90.9	40,680	6,528		-84.0	4,040,594	431,036		-89.3
August	94,907	13,707		-85.6	39,617	8,337		-79.0	4,018,066	591,823		-85.3
September	76,300	5,734		-92.5	35,721	5,103		-85.7	3,538,610	430,627		-87.8
October	72,299	4,661		-93.6	31,790	3,188		-90.0	3,323,186	286,442		-91.4
November	55,255	1,343		-97.6	25,151	1,342		-94.7	2,596,441	177,451		-93.2
December	52,899	1,044		-98.0	25,737	1,890		-92.7	2,621,325	295,137		-88.7
Total	805,443	142,532		-82.3	369,836	82,959		-77.6	38,053,418	8,293,393		-78.2
¹ Passenger numbers refer to commercial passengers only. Transit passengers are included and are counted twice (i.e. both as arriving and departing passengers).
Note: Knock airport closed in February and March 2021

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