Airline/Airport/Travel questions and queries

You need to ask aer lingus why the crew went out of hours and what they think constitutes the extraordinary circumstance ruling out the compensation

In my view you should have a case there if the reason for the crew going out of hours was a tech fault with the incoming plane for example which delayed things

Write back to them requesting specefics,mention the aviation authority have been copied in on the email

The reasonable reserve time referenced is accounted for in the crews FTL’s, it’s known as discretion and is basically an extra hour buffer as approved by EASA to account for this very type of event. So long as the airline allows for discretion to be used then they’ve covered themselves.

As a caveat to “discretion” periods, any crew member may refuse to enter discretion if they don’t wish to continue operating and a flight cannot operate back to base knowing that they will exceed their discretionary period before arrival, even by a minute.

Judging by the wording of your post this happened in DUB, which if it is the case then @Podge_irl point actually would apply, as one of the requirements on the airline would be to “organise resources” or translated to English, to have crew on reserve, which in DUB is reasonable but away from base not so much. It’s actually a very good example of the nuances involved.

Little fella (my kid, not my mickey) is mad about planes and gonna take him up to Dub to see a few take offs and landing, been a long time, is the mound still the best place now second runway is up?

Not sure if this is the right place, but has anyone any parking discount codes for Dublin Airport or any hotels near by? Flying out the start of July for 3 nights. Cheers, lads.

the car parks generally fill up for busy weekends and the peak summer months. There won’t be any discount codes

To answer my own question, this did qualify for compensation. Claim lodged yesterday, and today already processed and money transferred to me.

Wife got an extra day's holiday with her family, and I ended up paying about 98 euro for return flights from Cape Town to Dublin. Bargain.

The perimeter road on the south side of the northern runway offers reasonable views of activity, with the advantage that it is a quiet road so it's a more pleasant location.

I was on a flight from Turkey to Ireland with Ryanair a couple of weeks back. The flight was around 4 hours delayed arriving in Turkey and equally arriving back in Dublin.

There was some brief mention by the Pilot of Air Traffic difficulties as the reason for the delay but that was it. Now there might well have been legit Air Traffic control issues outside of Ryanair's control, but I didn't see any other flights at that airport being delayed that night. This was a very late flight, scheduled to depart at 11pm (it was about 3am by the time we actually departed) and in my experience knock on delays from the previous flights that day usually compound delaying the last flight of the day, and I know there can be further delays when planes miss their slots, which to my mind are likely the Air Traffic difficulties they mentioned.

I filled in to Ryanair's own EU261 form, but I got a message a few days later saying my claim wasn't valid, but no reason was given.

My question is whether I can trust Ryanair's response or process given that they've just rejected the claim with no reason or should I pursue it further, and if I do pursue it further, who do I take it up with? Thanks!

It should be announced a number of times during boarding but I've never heard of advance correspondence

It is possible. There are also some new scanners in T1 too but tbh the other lines move faster if you're ok with taking stuff out of your bag

Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed to Carry Over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage as of September 1

EU has decided not to allow passengers to carry more than 100ml liquids in their cabin luggage.

ACI Europe says the new rule will not be welcomed by passengers or airports.

The 100ml restrictions have been relaxed at airports which have installed C3 scanners.

ACI expects that the new restriction will result in significant operational strain and will impact the passenger experience and airports that have deployed this sort of technology, considering that purchasing C3 scanners, can cost almost eight times more than the regular machines. Their maintenance costs are also four times higher.

https://schengen.news/passengers-at-eu-airports-not-allowed-to-carry-over-100ml-of-liquids-on-cabin-luggage-as-of-september-1

Very disappointing news. This completely defeats the whole purpose of the scanners and means airports have wasted a lot of money implementing them.

Surely the benefit to airports and passengers is not having to take liquids and electronics out of your bag. That's the benefit I see in them, we're well used to the liquid limits and working with them for over 20 years

Nope, just in for maintanice with Dublin Aerospace