Dublin Airport New Runway/Infrastructure.

Luton would disagree for example

Other airports that designate a parallel taxiway for deicing make it work. Some mix it up, with some de-icing done at the gate and some on the taxiway. Depending on who your handler is and how long you’ll be waiting, you plan accordingly. And even a foolish ACC ATCO like me knows the closer to departure you do the de-icing, the less chance of delays meaning the aircraft needs another go.

What incompetence has the new runway closed?

I didn’t say it was impossible, it just isn’t the ideal solution for Dublin. LLA has their workflows better organised, for example they Pool their GSE. Therefore making it easier to have all de-overs working together to de-ice in a remote area. In fact LLA for a long time de-iced on the south stands.

My point was that at least 4 main handling agents trying to de-ice their customers on parallel taxiways isn’t going to be as efficient as one main company on a de-ice pad. Where would you have parallels for 28R departures or 28L departures or 16 or 34 or 10L that didn’t restrict traffic flows ?

There is no one size fits all solution for Dublin. At the moment on stand suits best as it has least impact on airfield operations. Now if only the airlines would resource it better and it would be cheaper. Also try telling the main customer they have to pay for new taxiways and new equipment, best of luck with that one.

-8 in Zurich this morning, my flight left on time, not a bother with it. Relevant parts of the airfield and the runway clear of snow and ice.

-2 in Amsterdam. Remote de-icing area, three areas for aircraft with two de-icers each.

Arriving in Ireland, diverted to Shannon due to fog in Cork because they don't have CAT3 runway. Utter hell in Dublin by the sounds of it. We just can't do things right here, when all over Europe doing it right is the norm.

Priority has been given to apron works to get that side of the house in order. Expect other airfield works to resume once the link taxiways and parallel taxiways are completed in H2 2023.

That would depend on the incidence of fog as much as on the size of the airport or city.

I pointed this out when the runway first opened. The departure paths aircraft are taking are not in compliance with the planning permission granted. None of the thousands of pages of documents suggested the aircraft would fly north straight after takeoff. A slight right turn yes but not immediately north. It's utter incompetence and a serious lack of communication between the IAA, DAA and Fingal CC in regards to planning.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41026244.html

Some other quotes:

"One person complained the level of noise over their home is “horrendous and unacceptable” while another individual said their family is being woken up by aircraft early in the morning and were prevented from sleeping until late at night."

"A different email also suggested the flight paths have changed and complained that “residents are living in what sounds like a war zone area”."

"Another said aircraft are “too loud 60km from Dublin Airport”, suggesting that people in towns and villages in Co Meath are “going to suffer” from aircraft descending too low over residential areas."

While the fact of overflying aircraft cannot be disputed, the IT seems to be reflecting a fairly one-sided view of the matter. Other communities in the greater Dublin area have long experienced aircraft noise, including when aircraft were a lot noisier than they are now. With the opening of the new runway, they are getting a degree of relief from overflying traffic. Any modification of the SIDs that are currently in place seems likely to redirect the noise elsewhere - so there would be winners and losers in such a situation.

They're all nonsensical complaints but too loud 60km from Dublin airport made me laugh out loud in particular. Not sure where they expect to put an airport with nobody living within 60km of it - somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic?

Seeing some of the comments are nonsense. These are just jumping on the moan a minute bandwagon. The amount of inaccuracies in their comments means they should be dismissed out of hand.

It’s a rural area beside the biggest transport hub in the island. Where do they want them to head?

Journalism 101…. Don’t let facts get in the way of a good story! Their only goal is to sell column inches!

If anyone ever wants to become really horrified at the state of modern journalism get a job in PR or communications. After you're familiar with the industry you'll start to notice just how much content (and content in respected publications like the Irish Times at that, not joe.ie) is literally just press releases with a few words changed to match the writing style guide of the publication.

90% of the modern journalism industry doesn't have the budget, or expertise, to investigate and fact check any more unfortunately. Which usually goes unnoticed, but becomes glaringly obvious when they run articles about something technical, or relating to a field that you have personal experience - ie aviation and people on this forum in this scenario.

Some are nonsense, some are not. The 60km guy can skedaddle.

The 1-2km folk with the illegal right turn, they are genuinely suffering.

Yet another downside to our toleration of so much one-off rural housing. Reminds me of the problems in locating wind turbines and high-voltage power lines.

Wait till they start taking off on 10L….