DAA is planning to throttle back growth at Dublin airport to ensure that the operator does not exceed the number of passengers it handles under its existing planning permission with Fingal county council.
Kenny Jacobs, the DAA chief executive, told The Sunday Times that the company was planning a “managed growth strategy” to avoid materially exceeding the annual cap of 32 million passengers “on an adjusted basis”.
The passenger cap forms part of the planning permission granted in 2007 for the construction of Terminal 2, and it is understood that Fingal county council has written to the operator in recent weeks reminding it of the requirement.
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