Dublin Airport New Runway/Infrastructure.

Yes it is hahah :)

yes. See FR24 thread for link to new 28R SID charts

There was no question mark, therefore it’s a statement not a question. I replied and you said “Yes it is hahah :)”. Again not a question.

You got the replies based on what you asked. I cannot answer stuff you haven’t asked.

17 years since planning permission was granted..

324 million in costs...to get it designed, planned and built.

Great to see it operational and what not but there is something so irish about all the above...

One day.. a significant capital project will be planned and built to spec, to budget and in a reasonable timeframe..resulting in hospital morgues full of people whom having heart attacks at the idea....

I know there were some appeals to permission being granted but... jeez

Apparently a similar runway in Melbourne is planned to cost over a billion Oz dollars. So maybe it’s worth it. 3rd runway for Heathrow is priced at £14bn as of a few years ago.

Yes it’s taken far too long and that’s sadly yet again politicians at fault. Decisions are made based purely on votes. Hence why we have no Metro or Cork to Limerick road etc etc. Until those decisions are taken out of their hands we will always be decades behind where we should be.

Ok, sure.

A single rapid exit on each end, aircraft are not deemed clear of the runway until actually on the parallel taxiway and not simply across the yellow exit line as on 28L. No bypass or multi holding points and the single point the do have is well back from the actual runway. Not built for an efficient operation, it's as if the DAA were being a bit Scrounge.

The media will have you believe its to allow A380s and 747s use the airport. In reality it will help with day to day operations. Reduce taxiing times from certain parts of the airport, allow closer slots while not mixing take offs and landings on same runway.

I'd actually say the opposite... this was planned well before the 17 years and was delivered basically without a fuss. They had been slowly buying up the land for years as far as I know. 300million for a new airport runway is incredibly cheap thesedays. 14 billion for Heathrow, thats roughly 42 TIMES as much. Credit where credit is due, I think DAA did a very, very good job building it.

It could be a bit longer and there was a small bit of penny pinching. And the rest of the airport is a disaster, but anyway.

It was the most tracked flight in the world on Flightradar too. Did anyone on here find out in enough time which flight would be the first, and then book last minute tickets? Cos I sure as hell would have.

And, for posterity...

Next Plane about to depart on the New runway. FR8556

BA to London City heading to the new runway now.

Is it because they're able to land so many now on 28L without gaps that there's quite the queue to cross RWY34 to the terminals? Or is that a normal mid-morning queue for a stand?