Chaos at Dublin Airport

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 ?

The pilot apparently told the passengers that there wasn’t handlers to push the plane back, handlers contracted to the airline, not Dublin Airport. DAA are in charge of the airport, not the handlers used by airlines.

If you are referring to the the issue with a delay caused by the handling agent not pushing the plane back, the pilot is the conduit between the people responsible for the handling agent ie the airline, and the customers on the plane who need an explanation. DAA are not in that loop, so why you are blaming DAA for either the delay, or the lack of clarity/explanation, is a mystery.

If the airline employ the handlers, then the buck stops with them I would have thought.

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.

Im sure its been mentioned before but the toilets in arrivals are absolutely disgusting. Urinals full to the brim, bins overloaded with all sorts, toilets mostly without seats and some after complete Arse-mageddon. Horrible horrible place!