Charges for dropoff and collect to be imposed in Dublin airport

Who’s they? Presumably you mean the people that are dropping people off at the designated airport drop off zone? you’re trying to argue a point that you know nothing about.

And you’ve personally sat there and made note of every car and can categorically state that they were hanging around instead of actually dropping someone off?! Give us a break with your stupid argument, there is no issue at dublin airport,never has been and never will be. People get dropped off and collected day in day out without issue.

Of course it would. Problem with Irish planning it will take 20 years to complete and cost about 50 Billion.

Bollards to you too 🙂

Cars don't get crushed for illegal parking, not even in your dreams.

Are we reaching some detente by any chance regarding the drop off?

Maybe the free quick drop off isn't the problem at all?

Newcastle on Tyne and Manchester have Metro/Tram connections to the airports and they are not even capital cities.

Dead right, don't spend your cash there, don't fly at all, that'll teach them.

Let's do both! AirCoach and Dublin Coach AND drop off charges

Are you sure? This suggests that the tax is needed to drive the car, not to park the car.

Regardless, it is clearly not a parking charge. No one is charged for parking in the suburbs. All the lovely space is given over free of charge, but only to motorists and only for cars and SUVs and vans.

Almost certainly, the answer is‘ neither’ unless they park on a paid parking bay and fail to pay.

A free 5 minutes for drop offs as a kiss and fly could be considered down the line but only when sufficient public transport is available from all parts of the Northside of the city at least as a start.

This is a money grab, from the start to the finish. Airports are considered money cash cows and the people using them are hammered at every step of the way. Take the security queues. No appetite to ease them in recent months. The DAA solution ramp up the fast track fee to €12.99 at peak, almost double.

So you pay your fare, they can’t get you through security in a reasonable time frame. Now they are going to fleece you for a simple drop off when there is virtually no transport into the airport for the 05:30-07:00 early wave which requires you to be arriving around 03:45-05:30 to make your flight.

The rest of the day, some PT options are available, but are often convoluted and not practical for an airport the size of Dublin.

One thing that really gets me is that some people think the airport is just happy clappy everyone on their holidaybops. It’s not.

The airport is full of people making journeys back to their home country after working hard here for months. Or Irish people returning home themselves. People heading to see a sick relative, or attend a funeral. Make an important business decision. Attend to a personal matter abroad.

We live on an island, Dublin Airport is virtually the only way off the island for most. Yes, many are going away on holidays too, and good look to them. By God I’m sure they’ve worked hard for it and paid enough tax during the year, that on the very odd journey (once a year for most) to the airport they can be dropped off at the door of the airport owned by the State and not be charged for same.

I think some posters need to learn to distinguish between "this doesn't affect me, so I won't offer an opinion" instead of "this doesn't affect me, so I support it".

And the one or two who argue with the "this will only affect motorists, and I don't like motorists, so I support it" logic.

Loads of people who work at the airport get lifts and are dropped at departures… I was once one all be it twenty one years ago.

A lot of staff including younger more temporary staff don’t drive and are not on public transport routes as I didn’t and wasn’t then as well as older ones who might and will be in the same situation....are they going to have to forego the guts of an hours pay to pay drop off and collection fees ? Every day ? Almost 60 euros in fees every week ?

going to be in a situation now where you start a shift you need to arrive at the airport 45 minutes before your shift..

Get dropped and walk 15 minutes from the entrance up to the terminal, walking to and clearing staff security screening, 15 minutes, 5-15 minutes to your work location….

This is a complete red herring. If I have two or three or four cars at a house (as many of my neighbours have) and I keep one on the driveway and store the others on the public road, I don’t pay any extra charge for the cars on the road. This is no charge for all that extra space in the suburbs taken over by drivers, space that used to be available to the community, for kids to play in or whatever. We should be taking the Japanese approach of requiring drivers to show that they have off-road storage available to them before they buy a car. Time to stop subsidising drivers with free storage space.

The only strawman around here is your point about overlaps. Of course, most people will travel by car from time to time. Just to avoid any doubt, I own a car, I travel by car, I’ve done airport drop-offs and pick-ups and I’ll probably be doing them again. The discussion isn’t about demonising people for travelling by car. It is about motorists making a very small contribution to the cost of providing and maintaining the facilities they use.

Hilarious how you try to add in all the parts of the journey that already exist today to try to make the problem seem bigger. Perhaps employers at the airport need to work with the airport to make arrangements for their employees if this is a big issue. But who gets dropped and collected from work EVERY day? Who has time to drop someone to work and collect the person from work EVERY day? What an awful waste of resources, having a car doing four journeys a day, just to save someone the dreadful indignity of getting a bus.

As has been pointed out to you, but you refrain from having the will to attempt to understand…..not everyone in the city / suburbs can get a bus to the airport…

And there you have it again, the ‘othering’ of anyone with a different view, anyone who doesn’t conform to the traditional thinking.