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Dublin Airport (Irish: Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath) (IATA: DUB, ICAO: EIDW) is an international airport serving Dublin, Ireland. It is operated by DAA (formerly Dublin Airport Authority). [ 5 ] The airport is located in Collinstown, 7 km (4.3 mi) north [ 2 ] of Dublin, and 3 km (1.9 mi) south of the town of Swords.
United States border preclearance. A preclearance booth at Shannon Airport in 2008. United States border preclearance is the United States Department of Homeland Security 's (DHS) practice of operating prescreening border control facilities at airports and other ports of departure located outside of the United States pursuant to agreements ...
This is a list of airports, airfields and aerodromes in the Republic of Ireland, grouped by type and sorted by location. For those marked *, the link is to an article on the locale, rather than just the airport or aerodrome.
Dublin Airport is the largest airport in Ireland, and in 2018 was the 13th busiest airport in Europe. Ireland has four main airports: Cork, Dublin, Shannon and Knock. There are also smaller regional airports at Donegal, Kerry, Galway, Sligo and Waterford. The latter three, as of July 2019, do not have any scheduled flights.
The airline was established as the national carrier under the Air Navigation and Transport Act (1936). [17] In 1937, the Irish government created Aer Rianta (now called Dublin Airport Authority), a company to assume financial responsibility for the new airline and the entire country's civil aviation infrastructure.
DAA plc (styled "daa") (Irish: Údarás Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath cpt), [1] previously Dublin Airport Authority, is a commercial semi-state airport company in Ireland. The company owns and operates Dublin Airport and Cork Airport. Its other subsidiaries include the travel retail business Aer Rianta International [2] and DAA International.
The airport’s beginnings The landing of American Airlines Flight 341 marked the official opening of the airport.
With almost 2 million passengers in 2023, [6] the airport is the third busiest airport in the Republic of Ireland, and the fifth busiest on the island. The airport was built in the late 1930s, with the first commercial flight taking place in 1939. Shannon was the landing point for the first transatlantic proving flight in 1945 and became the ...