July was Dublin Airport's busiest month on record as 2.9 million passengers touched down and set off from Ireland's main airport.
These numbers are 9% higher than the corresponding month in 2015.
Traffic to and from continental Europe enjoyed an 8% bounce as 1.6m people flew between Ireland and 'the continent.'
900,000 passed between Dublin airport and the UK - that's 13% higher than the previous year.
Transatlantic traffic was up by 7% with 343,000 more passengers flying between Dublin and North America.
In the year to the end of July close to 16m passengers used the airport - that's 12% higher than 2015.
By the end of July Ryanair had carried 110.7 million customers so far in 2016 - with 11.3 million people flying with the Irish airline during July alone.
Dublin Airport is the fastest growing major airport in Europe, according to Airports Council International Europe, a trade association for airports.
The next fastest growing airports were Barcelona's El-Prat Airport, Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen International Airport, Copenhagen Airport and Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport with growth of between 12.7% and 9.9%.
The DAA has formally issued tender documentation inviting bids to design and build a new 3.1km runway parallel to, and to the north of, the existing main runway at Dublin Airport.
The airport authority expects to award the contract and issue a commencement notice to the successful bidder next April and preliminary works could then commence as early as next June.
DAA has placed an estimated cost of €320m on the new facility, €70m more than currently approved in higher airport charges by the aviation regulator, CAR.
