Dublin Airport New Runway/Infrastructure.

That's not the (short-term) point of the runway. It's to decrease delays and congestion. New stands will lead to increased capacity, with the new runway facilitating that.

I can see the need for more remote stands but probably an issue with CBP areas , I mean most of us are used to being bussed for the ATRs anyway so it can be done, I cant see it a good use of anyones time having a widebody sitting waiting for an airbridge. Westjet seem to have no issue using the 100 gates either

Kenny Jacobs is nothing other than a mascot at the front of the car.

Look up the airport development plan that has been in place for several years now. Unless KR has an in with CAR then he will just have to go along with the current ADP.

There are plans for stands long in the works now for delivery next year and the years after up to and including T3 on the west side.

I cant see Dublin airport ever being rebuilt into having proper CTA/ Domestic - International areas but something like this would at least go part of the way.

Id say this might be on the cards if a Terminal 3 is ever built. They could then split up CTA, domestic, EU flights etc. into one area and have a separate area for international (i.e. non-EU) flights.

Exactly how this would be done, I don't know, but there would be potentially more space to play with the new terminal up and running.

How do you then stop people not entitled to avail of the provisions of the CTA from entering the State?

It only applies to Irish and UK citizens and it has been posted here numerous times that it was being abused.

you would build checkpoints on the land border if you wanted to isolate the 26 counties from the rest of the CTA properly!

I'll leave it at that and when I next land from the continent into a passport check with 1000s of irish and british arriving from the UK clogging the area, I will stand paitently and admire Irelands immigration authorities for being so thorough (and a land border barely an hour drive up the road)

It was posted before here by someone in the know, who I suspect knows more about it than you and I, that attempted illegal immigration by air into Ireland was a real problem - far more so than via the land or sea borders, hence the checks and people being returned.

10L/28R opening Hours extend to 1800 from Thursday 1st

About time.

It would have been more beneficial to have the hours extended back towards 07:00 first, to get that first wave out faster and therefore creating a better experience at Dublin for the remainder of the day. But it is still a good move.

Not airport infrastructure exactly but will the Quick Park carpark ever reopen? I always found it much better than the DAA ones.

Yeah it’s needed and was generally slightly better value than the DAA ones, it was also handy for contractors working in the airport, they charged them a fiver a day which was a decent price.

I imagine they want to be sure everything is operating as smoothly as possible during the rest of the day before introducing dual runway operations at the busiest time of day.

I've heard that Ryanair are not happy about the potential congestion if there's a queue for 28R departures, as this could affect pushbacks on the North side of their pier. That's most likely an issue for the initial wave of departures. Will the taxiway construction that's currently underway help to address this issue?

This could be a tricky problem to solve. As was discussed on here before about departure pathways, its not possible to have both runways' departure paths parallel to each other which seems to be what these residents are hoping for. There has to be divergence and I'd be willing to bet my house the planning preference is for the existing design rather than the alternative of routing traffic off 28L instead to the south over the northwest of the city where you would have many thousands of people affected by noise versus a few thousand as it currently stands.

It does seem listening to that clip that the daa's initial information about flight paths was inaccurate (or else it was accurate at the time it was given but then afterwards it was realised that you can't have parallel departure paths). So for that reason I do have sympathy for these people who made decisions based on the information they were given at the time. Hopefully they'll grow accustomed to it with time and grants for noise insulation will help.