Dublin Airport (DUB/EIDW)
New routes and frequency possibilities and why these routes would work
| Europe | |
| Antalya | Antwerp |
| Kiev | Dresden |
| Reykjavik | St. Petersburg |
| Kosice | Cologne |
| Cluj | Larnaca |
| North America | |
| Toronto | Las Vegas |
| Dallas | Vancouver |
| Montreal | Halifax |
| Houston | Miami |
| Detroit | |
| Far East | |
| Singapore | Bangkok |
| Hong Kong | Shanghai |
| Mumbai | Kuala Lumpur |
| Beijing | Seoul |
| Tokyo | Hydrabad |
| Kochi | Bangalore |
| Lahore | |
| Middle East | |
| Tel Aviv | Dubai |
| Bahrain | |
| Africa | |
| Johannesburg | Addis Ababa |
| Capetown | Lagos |
Other major reasons to serve this airport
New Terminal 2 at Dublin airport which is to open in November of this year.
- Dublin Airport is the major gateway for air traffic into the Republic of Ireland accounting for 77% of all international passengers to/from the Republic of Ireland in 2009. The airport serves the country’s capital city along with providing access to the majority of the country’s population base. A significant element of the country’s economic activity is also located along the eastern seaboard easily accessed through Dublin Airport.
- Dublin has become an extremely popular city break destination for European travellers with our visitor numbers growing each year. In 2009 we saw a total of 7 million visitors to Ireland. Ireland has also proved to be an extremely popular choice for International businesses with many opening European facilities here. Our very favourable tax rates and highly educated young work force are just some of the reasons which attract foreign multi nationals to this country. Industries such as financial services, pharmaceuticals, soft ware and high value computer components are all manufactured in Ireland resulting in significant business travel.
- Ireland is the only European country to offer US Customs & Border protection for US flights. Dublin will offer an enhanced CBP facility with the opening of Terminal 2 in November 2010. This allows passengers to arrive as domestic passengers in the US which results in overall shorter elapsed journey times and greater flexibility for US airlines with fleet integration.
Marketing and other support
Dublin Airport has, for many years, been to the forefront in sharing opportunities with airlines and encouraging new routes into and out of the airport. Central to the airport’s approach is the provision of high quality market intelligence, insightful views of the market and a willingness to offer incentives.
The airport has introduced very extensive schemes for new long and short haul routes. A Marketing Support scheme is also available to help in the formative years of launch. In addition to these incentives the DAA has also introduced a new Transfer incentive scheme. All of these are available and more.
The airport has introduced very extensive schemes for new long and short haul routes. In addition, a Marketing Support scheme is also available to help in the formative years of launch. es that underpin the new route introductions. This year is no different. All of those are available and more.
The broad details of the three schemes are as follows:-
- Long - Haul New Route Support Scheme
- Annual discounts of 100%, 90%, 75%, 50% and 25% on passenger charges, aircraft parking, airbridge and runway movement charges over 5 years.
- Short – Haul Route Support Scheme
- Annual discounts of 100%, 75%, 50% on passenger charges, aircraft parking, airbridge and runway movement charges over 3 years.
- New – Transfer Incentive Scheme
- The DAA has developed a new innovative “Transfer Incentive Scheme”, which would offer all airlines selling through fares on through tickets on specific routes (i.e. from a qualifying origin airport to a qualifying destination airport via Dublin) an inbuilt incentive to maximise their transfer throughput.
- Marketing Support
- The airport is mindful of the need to promote any new routes in this market. We are willing to arrange co-operative funding to assist in the promotion of new routes. Our Marketing Support package is designed to help out in this respect. That support, aided by a team of people willing to guide new airlines in the Irish market, will be available to help deliver the best opportunity for a successful and sustainable launch.
Your next best route decision is Dublin, the gateway to and from Ireland. Go raibh maith agat – Thank you (in our Irish language)
For more details, please contact our team on:
- Cormac O’Connell:
- Mark Evenden:
- Stephen O’Reilly:
Download: 2010 Short-Haul Route Support Scheme (.pdf)
Catchment Area
The Dublin-Belfast Corridor serves a population of around 3m – half the population of all-Ireland. 1m live in Dublin City itself and 1.7m in greater Dublin’s 100 miles catchment (Co. Leinster), although traffic of 20.5m in 2009 illustrates the vast importance of inbound flows.
- The Republic of Ireland has a growing population of 4.4 million people with a further 1.6 million in the North of Ireland. The majority of the population is centred towards the eastern seaboard and the immediate catchment of Dublin airport. Within a ten mile radius of Dublin airport there is nearly one million people with this growing to 1.7 million fourth miles out and 1.9 million 50 miles out.
- Dublin Airport carries out extensive market research which provides a detailed analysis of the type of passengers using the airport. In 2009 nearly 17,500 departing passengers will be surveyed covering topics such as residency, nationality, purpose of journey, booking channels, booking periods, length of stay, group size, social class, fares and onward connecting destinations. This information is available to our existing airline customers and potential new airlines looking at the Dublin market.
| Dublin Airport Passenger Profile | |||||
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |
| AGE | |||||
| Under 25 | 15% | 14% | 17% | 16% | 14% |
| 25 – 49 Years | 63% | 60% | 59% | 58% | 60% |
| 50 + Years | 22% | 26% | 24% | 25% | 26% |
| SOCIAL CLASS | |||||
| AB | 34% | 40% | 36% | 30% | 30% |
| C1 | 45% | 36% | 39% | 45% | 46% |
| C2DE | 20% | 24% | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| F1/F2 | 1% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 1% |
| PURPOSE OF JOURNEY | |||||
| Business | 25% | 23% | 20% | 20% | 18% |
| VFR | 32% | 36% | 32% | 23% | 22% |
| Holiday | 31% | 32% | 37% | 39% | 39% |
| Other | 12% | 9% | 11% | 18% | 21% |
| RESIDENCY | |||||
| Ireland | 54% | 54% | 57% | 54% | 52% |
| Great Britain | 23% | 22% | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Europe | 13% | 14% | 15% | 17% | 18% |
| North America | 8% | 8% | 7% | 9% | 9% |
| Other Country | 2% | 2% | 3% | 3% | 3% |
| LENGTH OF STAY | |||||
| Day Return | 4% | 4% | 3% | 4% | 4% |
| Over Night | 8% | 6% | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| 2 – 3 Nights | 28% | 31% | 28% | 25% | 24% |
| 4 – 7 Nights | 35% | 35% | 36% | 36% | 37% |
| 8 – 14 Nights | 14% | 14% | 15% | 16% | 16% |
| More than 2 Weeks | 11% | 10% | 12% | 13% | 13% |
| BOOKING CHANNEL | |||||
| Airline | 5% | 3% | 4% | 2% | 3% |
| Travel Agent | 15% | 11% | 12% | 9% | 7% |
| Someone else | 14% | 26% | 13% | 13% | 10% |
| Internet | 64% | 60% | 69% | 76% | 80% |
| WHEN BOOKING MADE | |||||
| Day of Flight | 2% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
| Day Before | 3% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 2% |
| 2 – 7 Days Before | 18% | 15% | 13% | 14% | 15% |
| 8 – 14 Days Before | 16% | 15% | 11% | 12% | 13% |
| 15 – 31 Days Before | 30% | 30% | 26% | 29% | 29% |
| Over 1 Month | 31% | 37% | 47% | 41% | 40% |
| CONNECTING PASSENGERS | |||||
| Final destination | 86% | 88% | 90% | 89% | 88% |
| Connecting flight today | 14% | 12% | 10% | 11% | 12% |
Under-served freight opportunities and other economic impact factors
IBM's Irish technology campus, at Mulhuddart in West Dublin includes a 300,000 sq ft logistics warehouse for the storage and retrieval of IBM components, and finished servers for European, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific markets.
Contact route development specialist for further information.
Stephen O'Reilly
Aviation Marketing Analyst (Cargo)
Dublin Airport Authority,
T: +353-1-814 4370
F: +353-1-814 4851
email:
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Geography
- The airport is conveniently located approximately 10 km north of Dublin city centre. It is served by a large number of buses, coaches and taxis all allowing you to get to and from the airport with ease.
- A total of five bus operators serve the capital city and surrounding suburbs with a further nine bus operators providing serves on a national basis. In total we have approximately 700 local and national buses a day.
- The M50 motorway provides access to the west and south of the country with the M1 proving access to the north of the country. The map shows that both of these motorway arteries are linked to the airport.
Infrastructure & Operations:
- Runways (number and length): 3 Operational Runways
- Runway 1: 10/28 2,637m Cat: II/III
- Runway 2: 16/34 2,072m Cat: I/Visual
- Runway 3: 11/29 1,357m Cat: Visual
- Approach MSSR
- Location 4.8nm N of Dublin
- Ground Equipment ILS/DME, PAPI, MSSR, SMR, DVOR-DME, Weather Station
- Slot Coordination: ACL in Manchester provides the co-ordination service.
- Operating hours: 24 hours
Terminal 2 is under construction and due to open in November 2010.
- Terminals one terminal with a second under construction
- US Customs & Border Protection
Important infrastructure developments and/or other news
- Terminal 2 is under construction and due to open in November 2010. This development will include a new Pier E.
- Planning permission has been secured for a second parallel runway.
Vital statistics
- Dublin Airport handled 20.5 million passengers in 2009, which was a 13% decrease in passengers on 2008. Dublin airport had experienced high levels of growth in passengers in recent years until the global economic crisis affected traffic in 2009 which is similar to the experience across many European airports. The airport is ranked 10th busiest in Europe for international passenger traffic and 17th in the world.
- During the year 11 new services were launched of which 4 were to totally new airports. The airport served 190 routes with 63 airlines for the year. Of this 166 were scheduled routes served by 33 airlines. The airport’s overall load factor has remained strong over the years. A total 27.7 million seats were provided in the Dublin market last year with a 74% fill rate.
- The peak months of July and August see nearly 2 million passengers use the airport. With only 5% of business travelling on charter flights the fall off in traffic during the winter months is not as severe and consequently does not exhibit strong peaks and valleys. The Continental European market has grown significantly in the past five year and accounts for 10.4 million passengers and represents 51% of the overall passenger number at Dublin. Our top five markets of Spain, France, Germany, Italy and Poland provide 66% of our traffic on Continental Europe while new emerging markets in Eastern and Central Europe are continuing to develop.
- The UK market remains our single biggest market accounting for 7.6 million passengers in 2009. The London route is our most important route with nearly 4 million passengers. Heathrow remains the most important onward connecting airport for long haul travel. The Transatlantic market accounted for 1.6 million passenger in 2009 or 8% of total traffic at the airport. New York is a hugely popular destination from Dublin and is now the third busiest destination at the airport after only London and Paris. Other international market is made up predominantly by North African charter flights along with the daily operation by Etihad to Abu Dhabi which is going to increase to 10 flights a week from March 2010.
