New figures show that passenger numbers at Dublin Airport declined by 78% to almost 7.4 million last year due to the impact of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
More than half of all those who travelled through Dublin Airport last year did so in January and February, as passenger numbers increased by 2% to 4.1 million passengers the first two months of the year.
But between March and the end of December, passenger numbers fell by 89% to 3.3 million. At the height of the Covid-19 travel restrictions in April, just 27,000 passengers used Dublin Airport - down 99% on the same month in 2019.
The last time that Dublin Airport had fewer than 8 million passengers in a calendar year was in 1994 - 27 years ago. In 2019, Dublin Airport had flights to