Chaos at Dublin Airport

Are the public areas and toilets clean now?

Will be going on an international flight next week, how are conditions at T2? Are they as bad as T1?

Many years ago I came to the conclusion that you should suspend all critical facilities the moment you enter an airport.

You should not rely on anybody except yourself.

You will be lied to and treated like a fool.

Resistance is futile, just go with the flow 🙂.

Always have my stuff sorted, liquids, belt in bag, coins, jacket off etc, ready to fire into the crates. Bish, bosh, bang, minimum of fcuking about and I'm through security like sh1t from a goose.

Can't understand people not ready for this, as if they never took a flight in their lives.

What time would I need to be arriving Monday evening for a 19.50 flight out with Ryanair?

I have been through airport security 50-60 times, I think I have only set the alarm off once (that wasnt the random search).

Some of the shite I have seen in security queues is unreal. Women who do absolutely no research whatsoever or don't seem to think the rules apply to them specifically, just coz. I see a make up artist trying to bring her entire suitcase full of kit on through security before. Or people with massive bottles of water in their bags. And yes, it is usually women.

You have elderly people acting the maggot too. Especially at the boarding pass gate. Holding up the queues to make sure Mary didn't get decapitated by the gates or arrested by security. Just scan your code and walk through.

Also at the luggage check in with bags, there's usually somebody giving out because she didn't read the rules. 20-30 kilo suitcases when they only paid for 10kilos.

We need a male only terminal.

I had the lady in front of me bring her phone through the metal detectors the last time I went through security. She was not a happy camper having to go back and pop it in a tray to go through. You can tell by the way folks are acting who’s gona be hassle going through and who to avoid

I went through the Airport recently for a trip. It was mad busy but thought the queues for security moved fairly quickly.

The security staff seemed to be mostly quite young and inexperienced which wasn't nessecarily a bad thing as I thought they were nicer and more helpful than the previous staff whom it seemed were on a bit of a power trip and liked to bark orders at passengers. Also I was stopped by a member of security staff walking towards towards the gates who performed a random search. Never seen this before beyond security at any airport I've been in. What's the purpose of these additional searches is security not enough?

Unfortunately the airport seemed very dirty especially the toilets which were filthy and some didn't even have toilet as I had the misfortune of finding I didn't see too many cleaners about.

I wish people would stop embellishing their posts with "what about the children" "think of the tourists" "what about the vulnerable" or as in above post "the Americans said they'd never come back"

BULLSH1T absolute and utter BULLSH1T

Why? - because Americans are used to overbooked flights, being bumped off flights and plenty of chaos in their airports for decades. On top of that, weather and staff absenteeism is currently causing 10,000+ US flights to be cancelled in the past week and it is near certain that US issues were the primary cause of the above flight.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/06/17/logan-airport-passengers-barraged-by-delays-cancellations/

NYC was equally affected as was Miami & Chicago.

But americans saying they won't visit due to a couple of hours flight delay - pull the other one.

The airline chooses the handling agent of their choice. What would the DAA have so do with it ?

You don't seem to be understanding it, or you are choosing not to understand it.

At Dublin Airport if you are on an Aer Lingus flight then the ground crew are Aer Lingus employees, if you are on a Ryanair flight then the ground crew are Ryanair employees. IcelandAir only have one arrival and one departure per day so it would not be economical for them to have their own employees, their own steps, their own luggage carts, their own tugs and so on. Instead they contract a ground handling group who does all of that for them. IcelandAirs ground handling agent at Dublin Airport is a company called "Sky Handling Partner". What that means is that it is not an employee of the DAA, or Dublin Airport, or IcelandAir who is checking you in, or scanning your ticket at the gate, or putting your bag from the cart into the aircraft, or moving the steps into position to let people get on and off the aircraft. It is someone who is getting paid by Sky Handling Partner.