# Air Traffic

This year

2023

# Dublin Airport

Some flights to and from Dublin today cancelled due to air traffic control strikes in France

Flights to and from Spain and France are among those being impacted by the strike action.

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Jun 6th 2023, 11:50 AM

# Air Traffic

Flights briefly diverted from Dublin Airport due to drone activity

The affected flights included arrivals from London, Alicante, Glasgow and Malaga.

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Feb 3rd 2023, 8:38 PM

All time

# Travel

Ireland’s air traffic decline 'among worst in Europe'

There was a 83% decrease in flights in May this year compared to the same month in 2019.

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Jun 12th 2020, 5:17 PM

# Brexit ready

Ryanair applies for UK licence ahead of Brexit

Other airlines have made similar moves amid concerns that Brexit could severely disrupt air traffic between Britain and continental Europe.

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Jan 2nd 2018, 8:18 PM

# striiiiiike

Travelling to Spain this week? We may have bad news for you...

There are four air traffic strikes planned in the coming days.

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Jun 8th 2015, 8:46 AM

# a sinking cork

Cork Airport may be 'world class' - but it keeps on losing passengers

Traffic through the airport is going down and down.

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Feb 10th 2015, 6:05 PM

# Management

NASA is creating its own air traffic control system for drones

The control system will be entirely automated, and will be first used for agriculture next year.

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Sep 2nd 2014, 11:28 AM

# mh17

This dramatic radar image shows airlines reacting to the crash of MH17

Decisive measures were taken.

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Jul 18th 2014, 10:49 AM

# Collision Course

So what happens when you leave an intern in charge of a busy airport runway?

You might end up with two planes almost colliding, which is what happened last month in Vietnam.

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Jul 15th 2014, 9:40 AM

# France

French air traffic controllers end their strike after two days

The strike was due to run until the weekend, but was cancelled after marathon talks between unions and the government.

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Jun 25th 2014, 6:55 PM

# Investigation

Two planes on a 'collision course' in narrow miss at Knock Airport

After getting the warning one of the aircraft had to make an immediate right turn to avoid a crash.

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Jun 11th 2014, 11:19 AM

# Come Fly With Me

There were 1,613 flights in Irish airspace on last month's busiest day

Air traffic figures for April show an increase at all three airports with Shannon seeing a significant rise of over 30 per cent.

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May 14th 2014, 7:44 AM

# Air Traffic

Up, up, up: Passenger traffic at Dublin Airport

As a result of the passenger rise, DAA will pay a €5.6 million rebate to airlines who saw passenger growth in 2013.

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Jan 13th 2014, 8:18 PM

# Global Warming

An Taisce claim air-travel tax will be re-introduced to combat climate change

The environmental group says that scrapping the tax makes no “long-term sense” and wants Ireland to make increasing use of ferry crossings.

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Oct 28th 2013, 12:53 PM

# Budget 2014

With the Air Travel Tax gone, Ryanair commits to a million more passengers

The airline says it wants to meet Irish airport bosses to discus growing its traffic in and out of Ireland by at least one million passengers a year from April 2014.

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Oct 16th 2013, 3:54 PM

# Air Traffic

Air traffic at Dublin and Shannon is up, but Cork is down

Dublin Airport handled nearly 500 flights every day in September, with 62 in Cork and 60 in Shannon.

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Oct 9th 2013, 3:07 PM

# Come Fly With Me

3% more passengers fly with Aer Lingus in June

While long haul flown passengers is up by 17.2 per cent last month compared to the same time last year.

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Jul 4th 2013, 8:07 AM

# Flights

Nose dive: Aer Lingus passenger numbers drop for April

The airline blames the timing of the bank holiday weekend for a 2.5 per cent drop in passengers.

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May 8th 2013, 1:40 PM

# Brrrrr!

Airline passengers warned of snow delays at Dublin Airport

Flight operations were briefly suspended to allow de-icing; passengers should expect delays in both arrival and departure.

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Mar 11th 2013, 9:08 AM

# Air Traffic

IAA: 2013 another "tough year" for Irish aviation industry

However, Irish air traffic has returned to ‘modest growth’ in 2012, and there are signs that a more consistent growth will emerge, said the Irish Aviation Authority.

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Jan 14th 2013, 3:53 PM

# snowfall

Stansted Airport “getting back to normal”

Meanwhile, Luton airport has reopened but is also experiencing delays due to snowfall.

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Dec 5th 2012, 1:35 PM

# all the way home

Pic: What happens when Americans fly home for Thanksgiving

Busy skies much?

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Nov 22nd 2012, 10:07 AM

# Flying

International flights down 3 per cent at Dublin, Cork and Shannon

IAA figures show that total flights in Irish airspace fell by 1.2 per cent last month compared to April 2011.

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May 14th 2012, 1:09 PM

# Daily Fix

The Daily Fix: Thursday

All the biggest news stories from the day, as well as the few bits and pieces you might not have seen.

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Apr 12th 2012, 8:11 PM

# Cyprus

Cyprus air traffic controllers go on four-hour strike

Unions say their staff are paid through a levy on airlines – and therefore shouldn’t be subject to a national pay freeze.

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Jan 18th 2012, 2:22 PM

# Knock airport

2011 is Knock Airport's busiest year to date

Passenger levels rose 11 per cent last year, but the airport says 2012 is expected to be ‘challenging’.

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Jan 16th 2012, 9:54 AM

# Dublin Airport

Dublin Airport flights resume after 100 kmh winds

Normal flight operations have resumed in Dublin Airport, as heavy winds earlier this afternoon begin to abate.

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Oct 17th 2011, 5:09 PM

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.

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Aug 8th 2011, 4:50 PM

# Air Traffic

German air traffic control strike set for tomorrow

Air travel disruptions ahead as union plans for six-hour strike over controllers’ pay and employment conditions in Germany.

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Aug 8th 2011, 2:25 PM

# Germany

German air traffic control strike averted

Controllers drop their planned strike despite lodging appeal against injunction.

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Aug 4th 2011, 12:02 PM

# Air Travel

German air traffic controllers appeal court ruling banning strike action

3,400 flight controllers were due to stop work for six hours tomorrow – but a German court has banned the strike.

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Aug 3rd 2011, 5:42 PM

# Ash Cloud

German airports reopen as ash cloud dissipates

Air traffic has resumed over Germany after the threat from volcanic ash forced airlines to cancel flights earlier today. Meanwhile, the Irish Aviation Authority says there will be no impact on Irish airspace for at least the next 48 hours.

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May 25th 2011, 4:01 PM