Around 310,000 passengers are set to travel through Dublin Airport for Ireland's first post Christmas holiday weekend.
Around 160,000 people will fly out of the airport, with around 150,000 due to arrive for a bank holiday break, the airport authority announced
We’re expecting an average of more than 77,000 passengers per day over the four days between Friday and Monday," said spokesman Graeme McQueen.
“The Dublin Airport team is currently working hard to enhance the passenger experience with a number of changes and improvements being introduced over recent weeks, including a de-cluttering of passenger areas within both terminals, the introduction of additional seating and the addition of a new Baby Feeding facility in Terminal 1," he said.
The airport was the focus of widespread criticism in Ireland in 2022 for hours-long queues for security and for entry to its two terminals as traffic rebounded in the wake of the lifting of pandemic curbs.
The expected holiday weekend surge comes after the Irish government's official statistics agency announced December 2022 arrivals into the country of just over 1.3 million, 96% of what was recorded for the same month in 2019 and more than double December 2021. All but 72,500 of the arrivals came by air.