• Ryanair urged the Dáil Committee of Transport to abolish Fingal CoCo’s 2007 32.0 million passenger cap at Dublin Airport, saying the government has not acted 16 months after a January 2025 program promise to scrap it “as soon as possible.”
• Chief Executive Michael O’Leary said average daily noise over St Margarets, Ballyboughal and Ashbourne is under 50 decibels, and claimed aircraft overflights lift levels only to 52dB or 53dB.
• The airline said the second runway opened in 2020 lifts potential traffic growth to between 50.0 million and 60.0 million passengers over the next decade.
• O’Leary added Ryanair has 300 new Boeing aircraft on order over the next 10 years, and called for competitive airport charges alongside removal of the cap.
• Chris Sununu of Airlines for America said the cap should be removed through a “durable legislative solution,” warning it is putting transatlantic connectivity at risk.

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