Dublin Airport New Runway/Infrastructure.

90 minutes is crazy. I'm surprised I haven't seen complaints of people missing their flights. Surely there must have been a lot? I normally only arrive 90 minutes in advance.

I haven't waited more than 10 minutes over the last year or so.

It was the old top floor, and with the plans for another two floors there may be some strengthening or something going on. Just a guess, however.

Departing from Pier 1. Plenty of non-Ryanair airlines use those stands.

It's always worth fact checking before posting something that makes you look silly online....

you do understand it’s also an airline choice don’t you ? Everything comes as a cost, it’s cheaper to board via stairs than pay for a bridge gate. It isn’t just down to whether there is or isn’t enough bridge gates. Plus plenty of other international airports use stairs for aircraft. Heathrow being one, where even BAs first class passengers have to climb the stairs.

Ryanair are the main user of that pier and are not willing to pay for air bridges. It was designed to have them retrofitted but Ryanair don't want them.

I’m not sure it’s an issue really. I flew DUB-DOH-CPT return on either an a350 or a B787.
All flights in DOH I was bussed from remote stands.

I absolutely love airstairs, they really help with boarding if the airline is smart enough to do front and back. I remember happily boarding a 747 in Johannesburg via stairs , wasnt an issue. The Ryanair gates have no need for them, and I know that's not the correct name for that area as a bunch of other airlines use it too.

Absolute pain in the ass flying BA to Heathrow and everyone has to go out the single airbridge. Yet the same airline flying to London City has no problem with you walking down a stairs and across the tarmac.

You are correct that it is not best practice from a PaxEx perspective. But it is not embarrassing to board an aircraft from a contact pier via steps. The Willie wave was realistically just because it was called "embarrassing" when really it's just a normal thing to do from an Airport perspective.

I've never had an inbound flight use the remote gates; its not inbound/outbound seperated so I'm not sure it can even happen.

However, at 11pm on an EI flight, you're probably going to go to the 300 gates and have an exceptionally long walk to T2.

In fairness left turns generally result in a better passenger experience.

For what it's worth, the longest walk from a 300 gate to passport control is around 300m. That's actually shorter than the far end of the 400 gates, which is 400m end to end.

Bussed direct from stand rather than going in to the gate building I presume?

Just had a read. Shouldn’t cause any disruption on services. Seat count for W23 was just under 14.3m.

Regardless of your opinion about Ulick McEvaddy this is an interesting listen. I still think it's all about pumping up the price of the land but still he is very convincing to listen too.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/04/18/third-passenger-terminal-at-dublin-airport-will-be-built-eventually-says-ulick-mcevaddy/

He found a niche that turned out to be very profitable and has run with it for the past 30 odd years, so yeah entrepreneur is pushing it for sure.

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2 hours on a turboprop? Meh. Very poor replacement imo. Doesn't compete with Ryanair.

It may be, but as you say until you get to the approach for Gatwick, you won’t start the approach formation with all the other traffic into the single runway. SOU you are pretty much straight in.

I have done LUX-DUB on the Dash 8. Flight time was 2:03 with strong headwinds. I made use of the free drinks on that one!

Just read up a bit on this, so seems Ryanair and St Margaret’s residents appealed Fingal’s decision to grant permission for the tunnel.

Ryanair - fair enough, they are involved in the airport - they don’t see the purpose or need for the tunnel and don’t want increased fees to pay for it (not surprising coming from Ryanair). Not saying they are right, but they’ve grounds to appeal.

However, I’m struggling to find what grounds St Margaret’s had to appeal Fingal’s decision originally to ABP. Tunnel or no tunnel the noise around the area remains the same, which I presume is their main issue.

I could only see Ryanair taking this to a judicial review out of the two? Even then, would they?

Great take, a reasonable person would expect the system to say - in an area where there is already much louder noise, on a 24/7 basis, established with 80+ years, a noise appeal should not be considered.

Will our system do this? Absolutely not.