Chaos at Dublin Airport

Certain trashy media outlets like the indo (same category as the Daily Mail since new owners) love to exaggerate stuff like this.

They don't mention that the delays on Saturday were not excessive and no-one that turned up on time missed their flight. DAA have operations over there and he was travelling for work purposes.

And if I was in his shoes, doing a work flight on a Saturday, I'd take advantage of whatever services I could - as would everyone else!! I have frequent meeting in Coventry on Mondays - I fly on a Sunday and stay in the Ramada hotel and bill it to the company.

At least he did the decent thing and flew back immediately. Sort half arsed mentioned in the story as it got in the way of sensationalism

The DAA are a disgrace, the CEO Dalton Philips is a desk jockey not a hands on operational guy, give him the P45 and the rest of the DAA board are not much better either. A lot of the issues are historic and they buy x-ray equipment and walk way metal detectors over the years whereby the both companies are actually in competition with each other.

I worked at Dublin Airport when Aer Rianta used to manage the airport, once DAA took over it all went pear shaped, they drive down the cost and its all about cost cutting , a shambles of an organisation running an international airport into the gutter.

Get a new CEO DAA and sack the board also, an absolute disgrace and p1ss poor management.

I read somewhere today that it will take another 18months to 2 years to get the new scanners operational in Dublin. You know, the scanners that do not require you to remove liquids and electronics from hand luggage. I wonder what forward planning, testing/procurement was being done during Covid so?

I know Shannon is not under DAA but it has them. Presumably fast tracked (!) for the US army passing through or something.

Anyway we can give out all day, but we do need quick results. Maybe convert one level of the covered car park nearest the walkway into a comfortable "holding pen" Jesus I'd say Lagos is better on a bad day.

Let's see if they follow your advice for the next incumbent. Any bets?

So you're going to subsidise half empty flights from regional airports. The problem is those airports don't have the catchment to maintain the routes at the load factors the airlines need. If they did the routes would be there.

Problem is Knock, Kerry, Waterford and others who will cry and whinge if we prioritise developing Cork and Shannon.

I will walk naked with no extra baggage to get through security in 5 minutes, I'm just saying if they want to create the option, there are no depths of indignity that I will not suffer to get through queues faster.

Seems 20 staff called in sick.

But if you think Dublin is bad, check Manchester.

Just a few more than that….

”About 34,000 customers were told their June holidays out of Manchester had been axed, some in overnight emails.

"We understand that last minute cancellations are incredibly disappointing and we would like to reassure our customers that we are doing everything we can to get them on holiday as planned," it said.

Mr Thompson, who is on holiday with his wife and three children in Izmir, Turkey, said the family were told their Tui flight home had been cancelled after they had already got through passport control.”

And that’s just one flight operator

Think the point being made, is that it is not a problem unique to Dublin, it is being replicated throughout Europe.

yes I do and really cant see the point in mentioning or comparing Dublin to other airports in here, I see it just like asking to bend over and take it up to the b4lls just because others got issues too

Positive thoughts of sangrias by the pool. You’re gonna get there 🙂