Chaos at Dublin Airport

haha not flying to Spain mate, got connecting flight to catch in Paris so stressed af, my better half on doubled dose of anti-anxiety tablets since last weekend :)

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I think you should be taking them aswell 😂 joke!

A similar thing happened in the UK. When most of the airports (inc Heathrow) were owned by Ferrovial the role of the other airports was to act as a feeder for Heathrow. The number of direct flights was quite low. Well in 2012 they were forced to sell some airports (inc Edinburgh).

For EDI in the 7 years to 2019 (before Covid) the passenger numbers increased by 50% almost exclusively driven by international passengers (the number of domestic passengers actually fell). Why - many more direct flights were attracted because EDI's role was no longer just to be a feeder.

I'm flying out at 9am tomorrow with a baby. Does anyone know if they're fast tracking people with babies?

I was looking at the queues on the news and didn't see any peoppe with babies or old people or people with disabilities so I wondered if they're prioritising some people.

Any advice greatly appreciated

I haven’t yet booked my summer holiday yet and I genuinely feel for people flying out of Dublin airport at a time that’s meant to be well earned holidays.

Dublin airport is a 10 minute drive from my house and regretfully I’ll be left no choice but fly from Belfast when I’m booking. My kids would go haywire in those Dublin airport queues so it’s worth the journey north.

Sad state of affairs

My 3 friends flying from Belfast instead of Dublin and no delays according to them in Belfast

Ah, I'd have said that too. But traveling with a baby slows things down too. You travel with food for the baby and they have to inspect the baby food and take apart the pram and scan it twice. They take out every item of baby food and put it through the test machine. One of our unopened packets of baby food failed the test. I asked yer wan what the test was for and she said 'explosives'. So she chucked the packet of shepherd's pie in the bin with all the other potential 'explosives'. We all know its not an explosive, but that's the process.

Then you walk through the scanner with the baby in your arms so they have to take a swab from the baby's hands and feet and you hand the baby to your partner and they do a pat-search before you go into the stand-up scanner. It's not my fault and it's not the security guards' fault. It's just the system and it takes time.

If 17 security staff were MIA on Sunday, can you imagine how many low-paid staff in other areas also didn't turn in Sunday.

There was a severe shortage of taxis in Dublin on Saturday night, probably due to the same reason - number of big matches on that day. Lots of Liverpool fans in those cohorts...

Might look at flights ex Belfast for August…. Busy month for traveling and no guarantee that this absolute shîtshow will be sorted… flights to the destination I’m looking at are seriously cheap. As are hotels in Belfast…

Through T2 security in 10-15mins. No queue for boarding pass scanner. No bags to drop off.

Yes. Tomorrow will be mayhem

I've travelled with a baby and this was not my experience. The pram was folded and put through the scanner. The food/ drinks (albeit snacks and not full meals) stayed in the bag and went through the scanner- they then maybe did a swab on one piece of fruit. I held baby and walked through the metal detector, we were patted down. No swabs of baby's hands and feet. Not faster or slower than anyone else in the queue, but they did let us skip a bit.