Chaos at Dublin Airport

two years ago these "conspiracy theories" are coming to fruition.

My understanding is that the PUP dried up and there wasn't enough work because air travel hadn't picked up. So loads of people across the airline industry resigned to find new jobs.

Yes, you are missing something.

Airport is saying do not arrive ANY MORE THAN 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 hours.

2 hours should be more than enough and has been more than enough with the exception of part of two days in the past 6 months. Even last Saturday you would have got through in 2 hours except for the very early flights where an extra 30min would have been needed. Even last Sunday you would have got through in two hours if you arrived after 2pm

Media has blown this way way out of proportion. But that's what the media do. They create a storm out of a breeze to get everyone to read the articles. People react and panic. Media loves it as they can crank up the catastrophic nature.

UK and other european airports have been far worse and consistently dreadful yet it barely makes the news in the UK or elsewhere. - Did you know that Manchester airport has had these issues on most days in the last 3 months? Schipol told airlines to cancel flights as they could not cope (Europe's best airport according to many)

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.

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.

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.

"state" employees. Are we in russia now?

DAA is a semi-state company. It operates as a private company with ultimate ownership being the state. It operates on a commercial basis and staff are not civil servants or "state employees" as you put it.

They got it wrong on ONE day. On that day they had no back-up plan for sudden absences, huge early surge of people and some staff had still not been fully qualified. Unlike may other airports around Europe and particularly the UK, they immediately created a new plan with back-up plan and that, as anyone has experienced, has worked very well.

People love to diss something local, but DAA are considered a world leader in airport retail and also manage two airports in Saudi Arabia and are renowned for their expertise. That they created and implemented a plan within 96 hours of the problem arising is actually testament to that.

BTW, if you actually checked, the number of those taking redundancy was under 800 and that was throughout all of its operations

Now I sit back and watch for more of the "you must work for" petty jibes - the reality is I can see through the wild sensationalism of social media and the gutter press, especially Ireland's version of the daily mail - the indo which has really fallen into the gutter since the belgian owners took over

I've no idea of the salaries of the people who were let go.

Now, I answered your question. Would you answer the question from my last post?