Dublin Airport New Runway/Infrastructure.

…and that's my point, in aviation terms we have an open economic goal in front of us with a Dublin Airport hub and we've managed to land ourselves back to feeding Manchester, Edinburgh and London all over again.

When it comes to administration, we Irish may not be the brightest people on the planet.

What forum?

We need to up our passenger cap to 45M a year or so , we have a new runway so let's use it , there was 26,000 complaints about noise to Dublin airport last year and 24,500 was made by 1 person that's 67.5 a day , I know the fear is that there isn't enough car parks etc and traffic around the airports would be upped but they can fix this surely, more buses etc because taxi prices have gone through the roof .....

True at least that's something positive

Oh I absolutely agree but there is always gonna be a cap (in Dublin Airports head anyway ) even though there is no need for it , as I said before we have a 3rd runway 2 parallel so we are well able for even 50M passengers a year , Dublin airport has plenty of land to use up be it for a new terminal, carparking , or just storing aircraft, what a waste of the new runway if their not even gonna properly use it , that's my opinion anyway

I agree that the solution is not a planning free-for-all.

My gripe is that Ireland has failed to recognise what an important economic asset it has with Dublin Airport.

The airport is ideally situated globally to make it a natural regional hub and Ireland benefits from all the connectivity advantages that arise from that.

The airport is also well situated locally. It's close to the centre of the Capital City, it's also fairly centrally located on the island of Ireland.

The airport had longstanding development plans and land was reserved to ensure housing was mostly kept away from noise zones.

With proper pro-active planning, we should have excellent transport links between the airport and the city as well as the rest of the island. We should also have built well thought out terminal capacity ahead of time instead of what we actually get, badly sited undersized facilities built as a panicked afterthought to overcrowding.

So now, instead of fully exploiting this airport hub potential, we have instead:

The airport managers apparently at war with the local authority planners and Bord Pleanala.

Nonsensical and ineffectual passenger caps as a response to traffic congestion.

Noise issues from people who have been encouraged by the national media to think that one shouldn't have to hear planes if one lives at the end of a runway. (Lets expand that principle to people living beside roads and railways and see where it leads - curfews for traffic and trains during certain hours?)

Ill informed and cynical politicians reacting to the latest thing they heard on social media instead of plotting a sensible way out of this quagmire.

All things considered, I don't think we could be accused of seeing the big picture, much less planning for it, implementing those plans and reaping the rewards that should accrue to any intelligently run society.

Planning is a shambles in this country.

No where did I state it should be a free for all for the daa.

I've seen a lot of articles recently on people complaining about Dublin Airport's dominance and that the demand should be ''shared around''. The comments made by these people whether they are regular members of the public or mayors/politicians of some of these rural areas are ridiculous and they've got no idea what they are talking about. The continuous media output of this and putting these people on a pedestal to talk about something which they have clearly done zero research about and know nothing about is very enraging.

it’ll be interesting to see over the next few years if there is any route development from the regionals as airlines can’t grow at Dublin.