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Dublin airport guest cap a 'joke' that curbs expansion, IATA chief states

The head of the worldwide airline company body IATA Willie Walsh stated a traveler cap at Dublin airport in his native Ireland has actually ended up being a joke internationally, and is avoiding airlines from broadening there.

The variety of passengers at Dublin airport, which carries around 80% of the nation's air travelers, was topped at 32 million when coordinators authorized the construction of a 2nd terminal in 2007, in part to avoid regional road congestion.

The airport this month warned it was on course to overshoot that by a million passengers this year, despite having actually minimized guest numbers throughout the year by around 650,000.

It's become a joke beyond Ireland, Walsh informed an Irish believe tank.

I speak with international airline companies who wish to serve the Irish market. For them, Dublin is serving the Irish market and they can't because we have this restriction, he added.

While a planning application has been lodged to raise the cap to 40 million, the process is widely anticipated to take years, triggering airline companies to alert of prospective damage to Ireland's. economy and contact the government to act.

Dubliner Walsh, a previous head of Ireland's Aer Lingus, said. the Irish federal government will need to step in if a long term. option is to be found.

The government has consistently stated that it has no powers to. intervene in the planning process.

(source: Reuters)