Travellers may have to pay up to €800 for round-trip tickets from Dublin Airport due to a significant decrease in the number of available seats, reports The Mirror.
A prominent expert said Wednesday that the days of inexpensive flights are ended due to a yearly restriction on the number of planes permitted to pass through the facility.
The announcement coincides with the confirmation of the Dublin Airport Authority that costs are already going up and that there won’t be any more “specials” or “seat sales.”
Travel commentator Eoghan Corry said: “It’s a simple supply and demand equation. As the flights fill up and the demand rises and we’re asked to constrain the supply of seats it’s a pretty unsophisticated relationship between the two, reports The Mirror.
“We didn’t see much impact of it in 2024 but certainly in the summer of 2025 the ordinary traveller will feel the impact of the cap.”
Price increases are already in place, according to Dublin Airport Authority CEO Kenny Jacobs, as some flights are being discontinued this winter. He acknowledged that there must be a protracted planning process before the passenger restriction is relaxed, which may take years.
He also acknowledged that the DAA needed to have applied for planning approval in 2016 in order to raise the cap. According to Mr. Jacobs, the passenger restriction has caused the cancellation of several flights from Dublin Airport this winter, reports The Mirror.
Crete and the US cities of Dallas and Charlotte are among the places that won’t be accessible until March. The “pain” of having slots taken, he said on The Hard Shoulder on Newstalk, will not go away.
“There will be more pain felt in the summer of 2025 than this winter –you will see airlines being much more vocal. The price of tickets has gone up, it will go up further and you’ll feel it more in the summer,” he said. “It’s going to cost about 1,000 aviation jobs at the airport next year,” reports The Mirror.
“The price of tickets has gone up, it will go up further and you’ll feel it more in the summer. You won’t have specials, you won’t have seat sales like you have from the airlines today. A couple of routes that Dublin is connected with today have already fallen off and more will fall off,” said Mr Jacobs, reports The Mirror.
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