Chaos at Dublin Airport

I see Philip Boucher Hayes of the RTE south Dublin bourgeoisie is lecturing the peasants on social media complaining to “check their privilege” in the midst of this terrifying climate “emergency”.

The same guy who’s daughter was pictured on a horse in Morocco on a family holiday on the cover of a National paper;

Getting very tired of the uber privileged climate set and their sanctimony at this stage.

Well no the q will be for 8.00-8.59 flights.

The next q will be for 9.00-9.59 flights etc.

The 8 o clock flight q opens at 5 am closes at 7...

The 9 o clock q opens at 6 closes at 8 .

Or have the q set up in half hour intervals.

They know how many flights and how many people are booked on those flights.

If there's a smooth operation you won't have people arriving way too early which was part of the problem.

You also need the right amount of staff which seems to be a bigger problem.

That's a truly shocking package.

Pathetic given the location, requirements and responsibilities.

Cost effective, though. Not long term as we can see.

I know of companies struggling to get good staff in for €13-14 per hour with less responsibilities, just physically demanding job.

You can get more by just doing fork lift course these days and outside of Dublin.

Poor management in DAA. Very poor.

ok, co-called Taoiseach rules out army in Dublin Airport https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/dublin-airport-live-updates-queues-27098199 ... God help us all...

guess another 'lesson to be learned' ....

Kevin Cullinane (DAA) describes the security positions at the DAA as "well paid" on Today FM.

No, you'll be too early and then be part of the problem. Go tomorrow instead

Wasn't DAA only guaranteeing 20 hours originally? I remember the furore about it earlier this year.

Listening to Dalton Philips on the radio a while back it appears that he subscribed to the idea that after the pandemic it would take several years to get back to 2019 levels. Whatever about the off peak season, which may take longer to recover, it was madness to assume this summer would not be insanely busy with all the pent up demand. And with this 4 or 5 year recovery fantasy in mind, the DAA left a couple of thousand staff take packages and leave the company. This included security staff, which was clearly a bad call.

To compound all this, the DAA then tried to hire staff in difficult roles, working very unsociable hours on the cheap. Perhaps they've got their act together in terms of recruitment, but if yesterday is anything to go by I would think at least in the short term that the die is cast and that the madness of yesterday will go on for another few weeks or months until new staff are trained.

Philips couldn't give a sh"te. He is off to Glanbia with a better package and only milk powder and yogurt to worry about.

The calibre of the next CEO should be absolutely top notch and well versed in dealing with crises of this nature, or indeed making sure they don't happen in the first place. You know..... forward planning and good management. Of course it might just be an insider who is waiting for the step up. Any guesses?

More to the point, what will the minister do about it if they don't come up with a plan, or it doesn't work?

I can't be the only one who thinks this is just another facet of the 'overdevelopment' of Dublin city. Use other airports no system can cope if everyone is travelling from the same place at the same time. In the greater scheme of things foreign holidays are not that important anyway.

You might be forgiven for thinking from the wall to wall media coverage that this was the greatest issue in the country.

please don’t forget to check your privilege

If we lived in a proper country the Minister would come out publically on RTE News, fire the DAA CEO, strip him of every privilege and pension and publicly scew him the way he deserves to be. But this is Ireland and FF corruption goes to the core. Security staff should all be Irish/EU with €40-€50/hr salaries like TSA instead they will get a few immigrants to do it for peanuts and then it will be corrupt with drugs passing though and until one day some Islamic terrorist trys some attack when his buddies in security to wave him on with whatever contraband which would normally make it through.

A massive reset will sort this issue out and everything else along with it, it's coming down the line very soon

A reset ehhh...would turning it off and on again not work?

Cheers. If I go too early I'll be part of the problem but I'm not missing my flight to Primavera to see my favourite band play on Thursday, been waiting 3 years for this.

It’s well know that he’s a paid climate evangelist, wasn’t he on about eating nuts instead of traditional food a few years ago? He isn’t exactly foraging on nuts himself judging by the size of him. Nothing more annoying than these dictators that never did a proper days work in their lives telling people what to do.

Just go outside under a bush, what do you expect with the amount of people there, if they closed the toilets for cleaning you’d be complaining about that then.