Facts and Figures Welcome to our Facts and Figures page. Here you can learn more about the Airport and discover interesting facts such as how many passengers we facilitiate and what our most popular destination is Operating Hours 24 hours a day, 364 days a year (Closed Christmas Day) Airlines and aircraft movements 41 scheduled airlines Aircraft movements: Up to 740 per day Destinations: Over 180 destinations Flying to 42 countries on four continents Passenger Statistics Passengers per year: 27.9 million in 2016 Facilities Number of Runways: 2 Runway Length: r/w 10/28: 2.637m; r/w 16/34: 2.072m Number of Terminals: 2 Terminal 1 - Opened 1972 Terminal 2 Opened November 2010 Car parking spaces: 15,500 long-term and 3,100 short-term Top 10 destinations London Amsterdam Manchester New York Birmingham Paris Edinburgh Frankfurt Barcelona Malaga Most popular international destination London Most popular country UK Most popular long-haul destination New York Year that Dublin Airport opened 1940 Owned and managed daa plc. 2015 Statistics Dublin Airport handled 27.9 million passengers in 2016, which was a 11% increase in passengers over 2015. In 2017 14 new services were launched from Dublin. Dublin served 180 routes with 41 airlines for the year.