Dublin Airport Authority statistics from Dublin Airport in 2025 showing an Irish breakfast sells every 50 seconds on average.
The most common lost items reported were bags, followed by sunglasses, mobile phones, keys, and laptops.
Bars poured over 1.2m pints of Guinness. Cafes served nearly 3m cups of tea and coffee. Tayto emerged as the top crisp with more than 550,000 packets sold.
In all 9m suitcases went missing, with a combined weight reaching 127,000 tonnes (equivalent, the airport press release helpfully pints out) to 21,000 male African elephants.
Chocolate sales included 43 tonnes of Toblerone akin to a humpback whale. Spirits featured 409,000 litres of Irish whiskey and 133,000 litres of vodka. The names John and Mary proved most common among travellers.
Graeme McQueen shared “2025 has been a record year at Dublin Airport and we’re delighted to see our passenger satisfaction ratings at an all-time high, with the team working tirelessly to send passengers on their way with smiles on their faces. The consistent uptick in passenger happiness levels over the past three years follows the continuous rollout of improvements in the terminals, all based on feedback from passengers.”
“This year has seen the introduction of new lounges, the extension of our Drop & Go parking product to Terminal 1 and the rollout of many new food and drink outlets in both terminals, including the San Marco Italian restaurant and Pret A Manger outlet in Terminal 1, and the new Ryan’s Irish bar in Terminal 2.”
“This year also saw us complete the multi-million euro rollout of new cutting edge C3 scanners in both terminals, which enabled us to remove the old 100ml liquid limit once and for all. The great news for passengers is that we’ve even more improvements coming soon in both terminals to make their experience even better in 2026, including an exciting revamp of the duty free area in Terminal 1, a new lounge in Terminal 1 that’s twice the size of the old lounge and a revamped 51st and Green lounge in Terminal 2. We’re also hopeful of being able to soon announce plans for a new smoking area in Terminal – which has been a constant ask from passengers in recent years.”
