Ireland West Airport Ranked 6th Best Airport In Europe For Queue Times

Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:11

A record 91,261 passengers passed through the airport during July.

Ireland West Airport ranked 6th best airport in Europe for passenger queue times.

It is the top-ranking Irish airport for passenger queue times in a recent study carried out by Casago, who compiled a best and worst list for airports in terms of their queueing times, using customer reviews from airlinequality.com.

Airlinequality.com is an air Travel review website, run by SkyTrax, a site for reviewing airlines, airports and associated air travel traveller news.

The study looked at passenger reviews to compile a list of the slowest and quickest queueing times at airports across the continent.

A record 91,261 passengers passed through the airport during July, making it the busiest July in the airports 38-year history.

The passenger numbers represented a 5% increase on July 2022 passenger numbers, and were almost 1% higher than the previous busiest July back in 2014.

Commenting on these positive developments for the airport, Joe Gilmore, Managing Director, Ireland West Airport, said:

‘We are thrilled to gain international recognition for the efficiency and ease of the passenger journey through the airport. This is testament to the hard work of our own operational and ground services staff, who despite handling an extra 75,000 passengers in the first seven months of the year have ensured the passenger journey time and experience of using the airport remains top class. I must also acknowledge the critically important role played by the Ryanair operational staff here at the airport who have contributed greatly to this achievement. It’s particularly pleasing to be recognised as the best performing Irish and UK Airport and 6th best airport in Europe by our customers and this is testament to the airport staff and Ryanair’s staff’s efforts and continued commitment to enhancing the passenger experience throughout the airport. I’m also very pleased to report another record month for passenger traffic at the airport in July, as we continue to grow the airport and add more routes and choice for our customers’.