Top sellers at Dublin Airport revealed

The airport's cafés served more than 2.5m cups of tea and coffee, equating to a cup every 12 seconds, while the bars served 1.5m pints of Guinness.

Tayto was the airport's top-selling crisp with more than 500,000 packets sold and 72 tonnes of Toblerone were bought by passengers, equivalent to 82 family cars.

Dublin Airport received a record number of passengers during the first 11 months of the year, and DAA will release final end-of-year passenger numbers in January.

More than 171 days this year have seen more than 100,000 passengers move through Dublin Airport.

The airport will be 85-years-old in January and when it first opened in 1940, it was built to accommodate 100,000 passengers per year.

"A total of 550 wedding and engagement rings were handed into the airport's lost and found department this year," according to Graeme McQueen, media relations manager at DAA.

"More than 100 of those rings remain unclaimed, including many engagement rings. Did they ever get married? I guess we'll never know!

"As always, the year saw some very random items being left behind and the award for most peculiar this year goes to the passenger who left a golf bag with a full set of clubs inside sitting on the Departures Road.

"We thought they'd possibly just had a bad round and decided to ditch the game, but alas they swung back to the airport a few days later to collect them."

McQueen added that Dublin Airport's passenger satisfaction ratings at an all-time high following the rollout of a string of improvements in the terminals over the past 12 months.

"Passengers are loving the new food and drink outlets that we've added such as Supermac's and Fruitality in Terminal 2 and the bigger and better Butler's Cafe in Terminal 1.

"The new Grafton Barber outlet in T1 is also proving a hit with passengers and staff, while new innovations like our Drop & Go parking service are really popular too.

"The great news for passengers is that we've even more improvements coming soon in both terminals to make their experience even better in 2025 - and we'll be announcing details of those very soon, including more great new food and drink outlets."

Almost 19,000 items were handed in to the airport's lost and found department in 2024, with more than half of the items handed in (56%) were returned to the owner.

The item most commonly in the terminals and surrounding campus was luggage with more than 2,300 bags handed in.

More than 1,000 mobile phones were also handed in, as well as 750 sets of keys.

Another commonly misplaced item in the airport during 2024 was laptops, with more than 550 recovered this year. 

The most commonly lost items in the airport in 2024 were:

• Bags/luggage
• Passport/National identity cards
• Mobile phones
• Sets of keys
• Laptops
• Rings
• Sunglasses
• Driver's licences
• Reading Glasses
• Toys

* This article was originally published on BusinessPlus.ie.