Aviation

Months before Dublin Airport’s new €320 million runway will operate past 6pm

The new runway was built at a cost of €320 million but currently is only open from 9am to 6pm

Dublin Airport’s new runway currently operates for nine hours per day. Picture: RollingNews

The operating hours of Dublin Airport’s new runway will increase in the coming months, a spokesman for the DAA has told the Business Post.

The north runway, which opened last August, was built at a cost of €320 million and currently operates between the hours of 9am to 6pm.

“There is a staged approach to operational integration of the new runway,” a spokesman for the DAA, formerly the Dublin Airport Authority, said.

The spokesman said ...