Friday was the busiest day at Dublin airport with 110,000 passengers arriving and departing. Overall 500,000 passengers will pass through the airport over the weekend.
Car parks remain full on Saturday. Security queues peaked at 18 minutes during the morning rush on Friday.
Car parks are under pressure and spaces cannot be pre booked for Friday or Saturday. Green and blue (and expensive short term car parks) are available Sunday.
The car park capacity crunch is a presage of summer as Quickpark’s 6,122 spaces will not be available.
The airport operators, DAA say they will NOT appeal the competition regulator’s decision to block its purchase of the former QuickPark facility in Santry. A written statement said: daa has made the decision following careful review of the CCPC’s judgement and in the interests of getting the facility’s 6,200 spaces back on the market for passengers in time for summer. There is an urgent need for more parking spaces at Dublin Airport and daa now calls on the owners of the QuickPark site and any other potential bidders to act speedily to get the facility back open for consumers and to alleviate the significant strain that’s on Dublin Airport’s car parks – all of which are fully sold out this Easter weekend. Allowing daa to own and operate the former QuickPark facility would have been a good result for consumers, bringing increased choice and lower prices for the travelling public. While daa sees merit in an appeal of the CCPC decision, the expectation is that any appeals process would take years, and our passengers cannot wait that long for these spaces to come on the market. At the same time, daa encourages all parties to ensure the prompt delivery of the BusConnects and MetroLink projects which will provide sustainable transport options for passengers looking to get to and from Ireland’s national airport, taking tens of thousands of car journeys off the roads each year.
