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Airport HistoryEst. 1940
Dublin Airport opened on 19 January 1940 on the site of the former Collinstown military aerodrome north of the city, with Aer Lingus operating the inaugural flight to Liverpool. Its original terminal, designed by architect Desmond FitzGerald, was styled to evoke the sleek lines of an ocean liner and remains a protected structure today. The airport grew steadily through the postwar decades into Ireland's dominant air gateway and the main base of Aer Lingus and Ryanair, with a second terminal added in 2010 to handle rapidly rising traffic. It is operated today by daa (formerly the Dublin Airport Authority), which also runs Cork Airport and airport retail operations internationally.
Dublin Airport began operations on 19 January 1940, with an Aer Lingus Lockheed 14 making the first scheduled departure, bound for Liverpool, from the newly built ocean-liner-styled terminal.
Dutch carrier KLM launched what is described as Europe's first scheduled service to Dublin, around the same period the airport's runways were upgraded to concrete to handle larger aircraft.
A new North Terminal building opened to cope with growing passenger numbers as postwar air travel expanded.
A £10 million terminal building opened, designed with capacity for around six million passengers a year, reflecting the growth of transatlantic and European traffic.
A new Terminal 2 opened, lifting the airport's overall capacity to more than 30 million passengers annually and becoming the primary home for Aer Lingus long-haul operations.
Compiled primarily from Dublin Airport's own official history page (dublinairport.com); cumulative passenger totals are as reported around Dublin Airport's 85th-anniversary coverage in 2025.