Almost 3.5 million more passengers travelled through Dublin Airport this summer than in 2021.
And 5.2 million passengers left the country in total – 3.5 million more than the same period in 2021.
But the stats reveal there’s still a struggle in catching up to pre-pandemic levels. “Passengers travelling to and from Ireland were still down by 10 per cent compared with Q3 2019,” said a CSO spokeswoman.
Overall, Dublin Airport handled 57,611 flights between July and September alone - 84 per cent of all flights in the country.
Almost 24.3 million passengers passed through the main Irish airports in the first nine months of 2022.
This was 19.7 million more passengers when compared with the same period in 2021, the spokeswoman said, but 5.2 million fewer than the same period in 2019.
London-Heathrow, London-Gatwick and Amsterdam-Schiphol were the most popular routes for passengers travelling through Dublin airport in Q3 2022.
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