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    Washington urged to curtail flights from Ireland unless Dublin Airport cap is gone by February 1 | Irish Independent


    Washington urged to curtail flights from Ireland unless Dublin Airport cap is gone by February 1 | Irish Independent

    https://www.independent.ie/business/washington-urged-to-curtail-flights-from-ireland-unless-dublin-airport-cap-is-gone-by-february/a1829005252.html

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    17 Comments

    4. SectionPrestigious89 on

      Is this cap due to capacity or what’s the logic behind it? Sorry, might be a stupid question.

    5. CrispsInTabascoSauce on

      Dublin badly needs a second and even third airport. The one and only airport we have isn’t enough. Full stop.

    6. warnie685 on

      Going to need some more information here

      “A4A is compelled to file this complaint because Ireland continues to violate EU regulations and the United States-European Union Air Transport Agreement (US-EU ATA),” the complaint filed on Tuesday read.

      “Specifically, the Irish Government seeks to impose a local infrastructure planning condition restricting the number of pass­engers at Dublin Airport to 32 million passengers per annum, which will result in the withdrawing of US carrier historical slots at Dublin Airport.”

    7. SpareZealousideal740 on

      Don’t see what case they have. If an airport can’t handle more traffic than you can’t force traffic into it. Heathrow have had the same capacity issues for years.

    8. SoftDrinkReddit on

      Would it be possible to renegotiate the cap to increase it but not outright remove it

      A combination of improved roads since the cap

      And an additional 1 million people living in the country

    10. itstheboombox on

      I mean if Ireland does make it to the WC surely they gotta increase the cap to the fans over to Mexico

    11. MaxiStavros on

      Time for a new airport anyway. Some new options, new routes.

      Dublin Casement International Airport. Just needs some jazzing up.

      Our Airfix air corps can go elsewhere.

    13. AkkoKagari_1 on

      They probably want more flights for the Americans trying to flee red states at the minute.

    14. StockAdeptness9452 on

      Sweet, Dublin should Urge Washington to stop landing military planes in Shannon.

    15. ConfusedCelt on

      Just stop focusing solely on Dublin for expansion then. We are a tiny island you can basically get from the farthest south to the farthest north in 6 hours. Expand airports like knock and Shannon hell there’s a few county airports that are basically just private plane storage that could be expanded too think Donegal has one?