This bank holiday weekend should have been among the busiest of the year for Dublin Airport. If things had been normal, around 400,000 passengers would have passed through the terminals over the four days.
But these aren't normal times, thanks to Covid-19. Instead, the place is like a ghost town, with grounded planes littering the tarmac and small groups of mostly mask-wearing anxious looking passengers coming and going on occasional rescue/repatriation and scheduled flights.
It is an extraordinary sight. And a deeply troubling one. Because what we are witnessing now in the aviation industry is not only impacting the present, but will have a huge impact on the future of international travel.