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Dublin airport is the largest and busiest airport in Ireland, and is run by Dublin Airport Authority (state owned airport authority in Ireland). The airport authority operate Dublin airport as well as also controls Shannon Airport and Cork Airport Authorities.
Dublin airport lies approximately six miles (10km) North of the city, near Swords, and is the home base for Aer Lingus (Ireland’s flagship carrier). Ryanair (the largest low cost carrier in Europe) and Aer Arann are also based at the airport. The airport has domestic flights to several airports in the country, and about fifty flights to all of the London airports every day. It also has more than forty daily to other UK airports. Aer Lingus serves many flights to the United States, and Dublin Airport has United States Border preclearance, which is only one of a couple of European airports with this facility.
There are two terminals at the airport, Terminal one was built in the early seventies, and was at the time designed to handle approximately 5 million passengers per annum. Over the last twenty years the airport has been extended and improved. A new pier was designed and built back in 2007, and serves most of the Ryanair flights. An extention was built to the side of the terminal back in 2009, and included retail and food outlets. With the exception of Aer lingus, the terminal services all the short haul flights. Since 2012 there is free wi-fi access at the terminal.
Terminal two was designed to serve over fifteen million passengers each year, making the total number of passengers served at the airport to thirty five million each year. Most of the long haul carriers are now at terminal 2, and the terminal has a United States Pre-clearance immigration service. Work first began on terminal 2 back in 2007, and in 2010 it was officially opened, and the current airlines that use the terminal are American Airlines, US Airways and Delta, Aer Lingus, Emirates, Etihad Airways and United.