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Dublin Airport (IATA: DUB, ICAO: EIDW; Irish: Bhaile Átha Cliath Aerfort ) is the international airport of the Irish capital Dublin. He is the country 's largest airport, with about 20 million passengers per year ranked 15th in Europe and serves as a home base for airlines Aer Lingus, Ryanair, Aer Arann and CityJet.
History
Dublin Airport was opened in 1940. Instantly he will be expanded so that new terminals for up to 35 million passengers and two parallel 3,000 -meter runways will be present on both sides of these terminals. Dublin Airport has experienced tremendous growth and by 2008 had skipped the 23.4 - million - passenger mark, with an annual growth of 15 % before the recession towards the end of the decade also paved the expansion of the airport problems. Nevertheless, the new built for € 600 million Terminal T2 was opened in November 2010.
Terminal building
Dublin Airport currently has two terminals for handling of travelers.
Terminal 1 - Piers A, B and D
The terminal 1 is composed of three, referred to as piers buildings. Pier A is the oldest and largest area, Pier B, a smaller wing to the northwest of this. The first opened in 1999 and located east of Pier A pier C had the construction of the new Terminal 2 soft. Pier D in the north of Pier B is the newest addition to the 2004 and specifically tailored to the needs of low cost airlines such as Ryanair domiciled here. In Terminal 1 at present, much of the traffic to and from Dublin airlines forming is yet released, including the members of the Star Alliance, but some of which will gradually move to the new Terminal 2.
Terminal 2 - Pier E
In November 2010 opened east of the existing facilities, the new Terminal 2, also known as Pier E. The 600 million Euro building has 75,000 m² of space and 19 passenger boarding bridges and can handle up to 15 million passengers a year. Terminal 2 serves as the new home base of Aer Lingus and also manufactures all flights to North America and the United Arab Emirates from.
Airlines and destinations
Dublin has many connections to regional, European and some North American destinations, including, for example, Manchester, Copenhagen, Rome, Rhodes, Chicago and Toronto.
Location and Transport
The airport is located about 10 km north of the city center to the M1 motorway to Belfast.
Dublin city center is by bus with the " Airlink " (line 747 ) from Dublin bus (about 25 min., 6 € and 10 € for round- trip) and the lines 16a, 41, 102 of Dublin Bus (depending on days about 40-60 min., to reach about 2.40 € ). The express bus " aircoach " connects the airport with the center in about 30 minutes. (7 € and 12 € round trip) and additionally binds the southern districts Leopardstown and Donnybrook and the towns of Greystones, Killiney, Limerick and Cork to. A taxi into the city center takes about 30 minutes (about 30 € ). (All prices from as of summer 2010. )
Other places in Ireland are accessible by the bus company Bus Éireann.