- Belfast International Airport paid £61.5m (€72.0m) in dividends to Vinci over three years.
- The payout is nearly double the £32.3m (€37.8m) profit over the same period.
- Interest costs rose to £5.3m (€6.2m) in 2025.
- Vinci is investing £100m (€117m) in a five-year plan at Aldergrove.
- Passenger numbers reached 6.68m in 2025 and 3.2m in the first half of 2026.
Belfast International Airport has paid its French parent company Vinci a total of £61.5m (€72.0m) in dividends over three years, with £12.5m (€14.6m) transferred in 2025. Passenger numbers reached 6.68m in 2025, the second-highest on record, while the first half of 2026 saw 3.2m travellers. The airport continues infrastructure investment.
The £61.5m (€72.0m) extracted from the operation is nearly double the £32.3m (€37.8m) in bottom-line profit recorded by the six counties’ largest airport over the same three-year window. Annual interest bills for bank loans used to fund major infrastructure works rose to £5.3m (€6.2m), bringing total interest costs over three years to £11.5m (€13.5m). Vinci Airports is in the middle of a £100m (€117m) five-year investment plan at the Aldergrove terminal including a solar farm and a recently completed security building.
Belfast International Airport recorded a bottom-line profit of £12m (€14.0m) in 2025, down slightly from £12.6m (€14.7m) in 2024, driven by record revenues of £70.9m (€83.0m). Profitability was squeezed by a growing interest bill and an 8pc increase in operating expenses. The airport handled 6.68m passengers in 2025 and traffic data from the first half of 2026 indicates it remains on track for another potentially record-breaking year.
