DAA got their wish

This is BS stupidity from DAA.

All these extra costs only serve to annoy and alienate customers

It wouldn't be so bad if it was an effort to prevent people just parking up at arrivals for an extended period.

Have something like 1st 15mins free and charge for anything over that. Would stop people turning up too early and just hanging around, taking up space and creating needless traffic.

But if it's going to be a standard charge regardless of time it takes to collect, it's a disaster and another expense to factor in.

There is a free drop off area as part of this.

There will be free parking in the red zone for people

Airports allover England had this as long as I can remember. Nice little earner for them and a constant revenue stream.

That exact system is in place in Cork Airport. Very effective and essentially leaves it up to the driver as to how long they want to stay.

It's just a money making racket, sustainable travel bollox. Let's all walk or cycle to the airport.

they want to reduce cars as part of a green initiative, ok…

say I lived in Howth…

The published transit times by private and public transport are the following…

Car 18 minutes

buses… none direct, 2 buses with bags over one hour.

train and bus… over one hour

Taxi…2 people, bags, tips.. both ways… 70 euros total, 35 each way including booking fee and very modest tip.

they don’t have any care about a green initiative, they have airlines on their apron using ground support equipment like tugs, catering trucks, tractor units, cars, and more besides, belching smoke and carbon into our environment .

then there are the aircraft themselves..

its a revenue generator, nothing else…

belching out crap about the environment is hogwash…€€€€

a revenue generator.

Not really a good option because you then have to stand and wait for a shuttle bus to bring you to the terminal, and the bus drops you a fair bit away from the entrance if I remember correctly. It would be a lot of hassle tbh. You just want to get dropped at the drop off zone and go straight inside. It would actually double the journey time for a lot of people.

dont spend a cent more then you need to when you get inside the airport, they want to put a gun to your head, put one back at theirs, when their vendor retailers are down money and struggling to meet the rental contract… that might be a wake-up call for them…

I was always the type to grab a beer, meal, gift, reading material if a solo / work trip and drinks for the flight at the airport..

so about 100 euros give or take….

Just 1000 people a day traveling out start being a little more conscious of being ‘held up’ in this manner…..that’s 100,000 a day give or take less revenue going through the airport…

the DAA want to ‘gouge’ people which is precisely what this is, hit ‘em where it hurts.

In 2019 the daa according to their numbers made a €150 million profit… yet, they want to nickel and dime people who are dropping off the very clients who are making that profit ? that’s pretty fûcked up behavior…

A good few years ago I was waiting for a lift at the end of the departures ramp. The only people who parked up and left their cars had Dublin Airport badges.

Why can't they do a "Cell Phone" lot like a lot of US airports. Having a car drive to the Red car park is no better for the environment than the ramp and they will need a lot more buses to transport people from the ramp to the car park. Its not like the buses are empty at peak times and I always found the DAA buses terrible compared to Quickpark. I rarely waited more than a few minutes for a bus in Quickpark, 10 minutes or more for the DAA bus

Why do drivers feel entitled to get all their sh1t for free? Buses and taxis pay a levy to access the airport, so why shouldn’t drivers pay a contribution towards the facilities they use?

Gotta laugh at the folks paying a good chunk of their disposable income to spin around in their massive SUVs, with four empty seats much of the time, dropping a couple of grand on their city break, whinging about paying a couple of quid for parking.

If you don’t like the charge, then fly less often or drive less often or both. Your grandchildren will thank you for it,

I see cars left parked on outskirts of airport. People walk to the terminals.

Its like an Olympic sport, who can beat the DAA at their own game.

Alongside the Coachman's inn, is a popular spot. On grass verge outside green long term carpark, although they blocked this recently with big embankments.

Bingo

I'm a regular down there, 2 brothers in UK who (non-covid times) fly home for the odd weekend.

One of us shoots down Friday night and picks them up and then drops them to the early Monday flight.

The car will still be on road for the 60k road trip. It'll just be to a destination 1km further away!

The solution is simple wheather you are picking someone up from the airport or dropping them off you may just do it in the City Centre and let them get the bus to or from the airport simple if you do not want to pay the toll now. That is unless its cheaper for you to pay the toll than them getting a bus. There is always options do.

Thats an absolutely ridiculous solution

Have often been left to the airport in the past and had nowhere to pull in to be let out because of **** using the drop off area as free short term parking. Always pis$ed me off that they would never police it.

Only use terminal 2 have never seen them at all. Not once and I would be a frequent traveller. Busses also use a seperate lane in T2.

Good luck parking your bike and getting yourself and your luggage on a bike to the airport 😀

Thats exactly what the guys at work were saying today.

We all used to have a couple of pints in the airport, now you just dont spend in the airport and you are even.