Record 36.4 million passengers travelled through Dublin Airport in 2025

More than 36 million passengers (36.43m) travelled through Dublin Airport in 2025, the airport’s busiest ever year.

This represented a +5.1% increase on 2024.

The total number included 1.7 million transfer passengers, which was -3% on the previous year.

daa says that while total passenger numbers climbed to record heights, so too did independently measured passenger satisfaction scores, which increased consistently throughout 2025 to sit at all-time high levels.

Dublin Airport Managing Director, Gary McLean said:

“Maintaining standards at such consistently high levels during the busiest year in our 85-year-history is testament to the commitment and hard work of the Dublin Airport team.

“The airport operation ran smoothly throughout the year, with 97% of passengers passing through security in less than 20 minutes, boosted by the roll out of new best-in-class security scanning technology across both terminals.

“Go back 10 years and Dublin Airport had never handled more than 100,000 passengers in a single day.

“Fast forward to 2025 and 3 out of every 5 days saw 100,000+ passengers moving through our terminals, while we also recorded our busiest ever day on Sunday, 10^th August when 130,427 passengers went through smoothly.

“Our terminals and road network handled those numbers comfortably, helped by the continued progress in encouraging passengers to use non-private car methods to get to and from the airport, with more than half using public transport.

“The strong passenger numbers in 2025 are indicative of the huge demand that’s there to fly in and out of Ireland and also of the importance of ensuring that Dublin Airport, as the island’s main gateway, has the capacity and infrastructure needed to meet the needs of our fast-growing population.

“Transatlantic activity was strong in 2025 with numbers processed by our US pre-clearance facility in Terminal 2 exceeding 2 million in a 12-month period for the first time ever.

“Dublin Airport has room to accommodate higher numbers of passengers in the years ahead, but it is essential that we soon start building new gates, stands and other infrastructure to set us up to meet the demand that’s coming over the coming decades – and removing the passenger cap is key to that happening.

“We are encouraged by the progress being made by the Minister for Transport in introducing new legislation, which will see the cap removed, and its inclusion this week in the Spring Legislative Programme, while daa continues to work with other stakeholders to progress its Infrastructure Application through the planning system.”