Good afternoon everyone! Today has marked a new era for Dublin Airport and Irish Aviation. At 12:10PM Irish Summer Time (11:10Z) a Ryanair 737 MAX 8-200 registered as EI-HAW departed as the inaugural flight for the first departure on 28R/10L Dublin’s newly opened “Northern runway”.
Info from Simpleflying
Construction
Construction began on the new North Runway in December 2016 - 9 years after initial planning permission was granted. Construction package one was completed with a revamp of the local roads surrounding the airport. The “Naul Road” was diverted north of the apron to allow space for the runway. Also included in the construction package one was an archeological survey.
Operations
According to the Dublin Airport Authority,
“North Runway will be located 1.69km to the north, and parallel, to the existing main 10/28 runway. It will be capable of handling all aircraft types up to Code F aircraft. To meet this operational brief, the runway will be 3,110m long and 75m wide with a parallel taxiway located to the south connected into the existing taxiway network.”
34/16 can no longer be used simultaneously with 28L/10R and can only be used when there is very bad crosswinds for The 28s and 10s. It is now used as a taxiway unless in operation.
Photo taken by me 🤙 there’s also a video up on my Instagram @kyles.aviation :)
Hopefully we can get some satellite imagery soon so this can be added into Infinite Flight. It will for sure help reduce ATC workload instead of just using 28L/10R like most controllers tend to do so!
