Bray Air Display 2022

Seen five jets just fly by house in Rathfarnham at about 19:38.

Anyone else see them- well you would’ve heard them anyway! Brilliant!

Any idea what jets they were?

I thought the whole thing was supposed to be over by 5?

Dart service fell over, that's on irish rail. They along with TFI advertised additional services and capacity and neither appeared to be the case before the airshow anyway.

What do you want the organisers to do about that ??

There's never been this level of issue with the dart to bray when the airshow is on.

For what the organisers could control that was car parking, from what I could see everything was moving well enough into the car parks, delays as usual as with every air show day with traffic out onto the m50 but nothing out of the ordinary there for the day thats in it, Gardai at every junction into Bray on point duty with traffic lights turned off to let traffic move quicker.

Irish Rail will have alot to answer for but that'll be really about it.

When you live here you get used to the traffic that comes with Airshow weekend and it wasn't anything out of the ordinary on the roads anyway, if anything it was more organised car parking wise this year.

Yup, there's 2 sidings just past the station along with turn around points further on down before it becomes a 1 track line.

There's never been this amount of hassle with the darts when the airshow is on.

When I was leaving the seafront both platforms were being used for services heading into Dublin with more darts lined up waiting behind & some waiting to enter Bray coming the other way, held on the dargle bridge

So which is it, there were loads of darts (in which case how did Irish rail fail) or there were massive issues with the DART (in which case how were they lined up in teams)?

They could have the Blue Angels dogfighting the Red Arrows next year, I still won't ever touch that airshow in Bray again. Id understand if today was a once off but it's a total shambles every year.

I hope they bring back the airshow to Galway, the organisers there always managed to run everything well.

Anyone an idea on numbers??. There must have been way more than they usually get.

I said I was at the dart earlier. Couldn't get on mind you but there was 100% an increased service, they were coming in about 2 - 3 minutes apart. Next few in 5 mins one after the other and so on. Wasn't a Sunday service at all.

The people jumping off obviously had a knock on effect causing huge delays then.

Coming home was a different story though.

Last few years at it I never remember having to queue for hours trying to get into the station, you always just walked straight in, train would depart, next lot in the next train and that departs and there was always a nice flow.

They definitely fucked that part up.

I posted earlier on this thread - never again, I normally take these things with a pinch of salt but that was not worth it in anyway. Dragged the whole family on train to bray and paid for family ticket which was never checked once - I must have been the only one who bought a ticket for the day. Absolute carnage. Still on the maynooth train back home..

it’s taken us longer to get to bray and back than it did to travel to Italy last month

Let's call a spade a spade

What a pile of sh1te

Yeah that was absolutely crap. Who wants to look at a Garda helicopter do 3 or 4 fly pasts. Slow moving planes and an awful crowd full of scumbags smoking weed and drinking. An awful day will never go again.

Today was disappointing. The rain at Baldonnel didn't help things, but surely the organisers will have been well aware of the forecast, and things could have been rejigged.

Ou usual parking area was off limits, and is just minutes from the seafront. We ended up parking much further down (pre-booked), and ended up walking for around an hour both ways because the shuttle service only had a few buses for the amount of people queuing. We'd have been quicker walking than queuing.

I can see the Air Corps often, but it was still nice to see them today, along with others that managed to perform.

It is disappointing that what we're considered the main acts didn't even get off the ground.

The airshow was only on for the one day, rather than two, so no doubt there were more today than usual.

It was a terribly boring display, I actually fell asleep when rescue 116 was going by again. Sure we see that everyday in Dublin doing its patrols. The two displays we all wanted to see didn’t perform, which was a huge let down and felt that they could have changed the running order up a bit with the forecast.

The DART was an absolute sham. It was completely full already at Harmonstown which it never is. Then the scum / I know better brigade made a terrible situation worse by opening the doors and hopping out on a live and busy railway. Thankfully we got in ahead of that. My train had 6 carriages, while passing many sets at Fairview.

Knowing the **** show that going home was going to be, had two pints in the harbour bar which was great as usual and seemed to be the only place set up for the crowds. Managed a seat on the way home.

I love planes, but today really put me off going again.

What an absolute sh1tshow. Seems like no crowd control whatsoever.

Left Booterstown at about 11.30. Train was absolutely packed. Heat was incredible and no air conditioning.

Arrived at air show and realised I made a huge mistake. Crowds were unbelievable - way too much to enjoy yourself. Went to get a pizza and ended up queuing up for over an hour. Massive queues for all food stalls.

Very trashy crowd at the show itself. Drinking beers and pushing prams with their bellies hanging out. Watched a few sh1t planes fly by then queued up for another few hours to get home.

Was such a relief to finally get away from that and get to my home.