Chaos at Dublin Airport

So what. This it's happening in other places so its understanding is crap. What is happening in those has no bearing on what the DAA do.

Sorry just rereading what I wrote and it does look like I am blaming the people who showed up early. Was not my intention. As I say they were right to do so to be sure of making there flight. Made by the panic that issued due to the DAA ineptitude in the job

Sorry should have clarified, not my experience at airports that aren’t Dublin. Always found security personnel at Dublin Airport particularly unfriendly and downright aggressive at times compared to other airports.

It's a sign of the times, all over the world.

That's just excusing crap service. Don't excuse it.

They can barely even do basic hygiene in Dublin atm. Toilets are disgusting

Yeah they fcuked up. They should ahead recruited earlier and more aggressively. They'd risk looking foolish if there was another variant of concern this summer and travel was restricted again. Costs would have gone up and revenue would be down. Nobody would ahem called them clever of thst had happened even though it would have nlbeen out of their control. So there would have been risks to either decision.

I find airport staff pretty similar. I'd say it has mpre to do with whether the person is having a sh1t day than anything else. Dealing with the public all day can be grating. I try not to get thick about it.

Tbh I think unless there was a serious variant that actually started to increase death rate, people were done with Covid and restrictions in general and travel would have been busy this summer.

That's interesting. I flew out of Bristol 2 weeks ago and it was absolutely fine (the same weekend it all kicked off in dublin). Flew out of Newcastle the last 2 weekends and it was no bother either time. And dublin T2 was very quiet on Friday morning at about 6am. Got through in 10-15 mins in all 4 instances.

Theres no predicting how it will be. Presumably the staff are staff are all working very long hours to make it work. That isn't sustainable. Hope the recruitment is going well ahead of the summer rush.

Think it has a lot to do with airlines cancelling flights due to staffing issues, TUI and easyJet had cancelled flights that day, she said she was actually scared with the atmosphere/hostility in the airport.

Is that the Heathrow that had 6 hour queues yesterday?

and the Heathrow where it was taking over 2 hours for baggage to get into the baggage hall at times?

UK government still does not give a toss. At least here all the stops were taken out to prevent a reoccurrence and it has worked.

Airlines have to take some blame too. All were saying in Jan, Feb, March and as late as april (BA/Aerlingus) that business would not recover to 2019 levels until 2024 and gave stockmarket predictions that this summer would be 20%+ below 2019 figures. Now it seems they will be higher.

It kinda helps to understand the reasons for it happening and that it is being replicated in many countries around the world. Otherwise people take the simplistic view that it is a uniquely Irish problem with an Irish solution.

Came back through Dublin Airport over the weekend. Guy at immigration must have been new - never had it taken so seriously (except for the US, I suppose..).

"Ooh, you're a lot hairier, this will be a challenge. Stand over here so I can see you better through the glass. Take off your glasses. Try to keep a straight face like in the photo and stop laughing so I can compare.."

But no delay once we got off the plane, and baggage was out on the carousel almost as quickly as I was through.

So sad that you need to go down the pettiness route of "you must work for".

I mean it really shows phenomenal pettiness.

I just cut though the sensationalism claptrap.

There was an issue for 8 hours for one day. A back up plan should have been in place. Lessons were learnt.

The sh1te that it is causing "reputational damage" as you hear from mouthpieces such as sinn fein is just that - utter sh1te. If anything the fact that they created aback-up plan and implemented it within a few days unlike dozens of other airports that still have issues (avoid manchester at all costs) actually enhances the reputation as it has run smoothly ever since.