Aer Lingus will not cut flights from Dublin Airport next summer, CE says

Aer Lingus will not cut flights from Dublin Airport next summer, according to CE Lynne Embleton, reacting on Friday to this week’s key court ruling on passenger caps at the gateway. The High Court suspended a decision by regulators to limit airlines at Dublin Airport to 25.2m between March and October 2025, air travel’s busy summer season, pending the outcome of a full hearing on the issue next month. Embleton said that the ruling meant “we do not have to reduce our capacity by 5%” at Ireland’s biggest airport next summer. Aer Lingus, rival Ryanair and several US carriers would have had to slash one million seats from their Dublin schedules had the court allowed regulators to impose the limit. This would have reduced flights at the airport, driving up air fares for holidaymakers next year. Aer Lingus told the court the limit would cost it E84m. “We have not put growth on our schedule and we have not taken capacity out,” Embleton said of the airline’s existing plans for next summer.<br/>