Dublin Airport New Runway/Infrastructure.

I’ve a friend working for a county council and sometimes I wonder does the fkkr even have a job😂 taking the p*ss is an understatement…. Just anecdotal from me tbf!

Flight paths are created in compliance with EASA regulations, which supercede any conflicting national legislation anyway. Member states have to comply with EASA, not the other way around.

The plan for the 10/28 runways was published and made publicly available in 1968. The only thing that has changed since is that they have been shortened from an originally planned 4,000M. These cranks need to accept they should have known what was coming and its their own fault if they are surprised.

You clearly don't know how the civil service operates you clown

Oh bring it back to a trump comment, what a spa

You only need to take a look at the state of public transport in this country to know they haven't a clue before getting into something complicated like aviation

😂 You seem to be the one who's ranting. You ok Hun?

It's a discussion forum. Eh, that's the point. You can't seem to handle people having differing opinions to yours. You throw hissy fits when anyone argues against the cap for instance, yet you've never addressed the localized environmental impact on more planes flying through the airport. Instead just throw lazy insults. You also don't acknowledge that the Ministers for Transport, the DOT, and the FCC might (do) have more knowledge than you do, and have good reasons for doing what they're doing. You probably have shares in the airlines or something and see this financially hurting you as you seem totally focused on that aspect of things. You should at least admit to your vested interest.

Again you avoid and don't answer the points that don't fit your narrative.

The route out of this farce appears to be for the DAA to announce the airport will be closed from November to January. All flights cancelled, workers temporarily laid off to comply with the cap. Then the clock can restart in January.

The ferocity of the backlash, the alarm in government will be so huge for every TD that cap will be gone within days.

They need to be forced in to action and that is the quickest way to deal with the paddy politics that is now damaging the reputation and credibility of this state in such a public way.

We are a laughing stock.

Sorry, that should be a B737.

Agreed. There's far too much hyperbole about what will happen if there cap isn't scrapped. Not one person has countered my argument about the FACTUAL localized environmental effect (both noise and emissions) that increasing the cap will have. Yes, that cap wasn't introduced for environmental reasons, I have heard that argument BUT the world has moved on since then and I think the cap IS mitigating those effects somewhat. These are facts conveniently ignored.

I'm not sure I see where you're getting the term 'minimal' from? For far too long people have discounted environmental impacts because of 'progress' and this is what has the world in the shape it's in. It's time to take responsibility. And any localized impact, however minimal, will still be more than the alternative of using the other regional airports.

I get the impression that this person doesn’t care what happens, he/she is only interested in NIMBYISM

So you think we should let the Irish economy stagnate and cost us thousands of jobs and millions in investment because some people who were told this was coming in 1968 don’t like the sound of planes?

Thats unhinged. There’s no reasoning with someone like that. If I bought a house near a train line and started whinging about the noise from trains, I would expect to be ignored, and rightfully so

I’m from Newbridge & live about 500mts from the train line. The Dublin-Cork train flirs through twice an hour horn blaring, yet ask any local and the answer is likely to be ‘what train’. This individual is using any excuse to further their own aims.
oh and Newbridge is more of less in the direct flight path of the 30 odd flights a day to North America. Yet it feels like the planes are silent.

And it's easy to talk about the evils of NIMBYism in regards to Dublin airport when you live in Newbridge.

I’m confused on your position on this if you could help me out please.

You’re ok with the idea of more flights from Ireland as long as they are from the regional airports, not Dublin? Or you don’t want more flights from the island full stop?

If the former, what about the local impact for Shannon and Cork with more flights? Does that not matter as long as they won’t be over you? I.e. NIMBY

If you don’t want more flights full stop from Ireland because of the emissions and local impacts, I presume you yourself haven’t flown in the last decade and will not fly again out of consideration for the poor people under the flight paths. I presume you don’t drive or have a car, as think of the emissions from that. You grow all your own food as a result of the emissions from farm animals and machinery. Your house has no electricity/ wifi/ electronic devices such as laptops and phones as think of the environmental foot print there.

Which one is it? Would appreciate the clarification.

cannot be the second one as this individual seems to be quick in replying meaning he/she has Wi-Fi & electricity.

Bussywussy all you have is abuse, you have no argument.

Wow. You guys really are a 'Everyone who disagrees with me is Hitler' bunch. All I'm saying is that we've gotten on perfectly fine with the cap the way it is up to now and there's way too much reliance on Dublin airport so it makes sense for the regionals to get some of the future excess. Lots of people, including people in charge, see it the same way. Go ahead with the name-calling though. Water off a ducks back here!

Pretty high I reckon. High enough not to hear I would think. I believe you when you say you're not a crow.

I don't think I did. Care to elaborate?

Post of the month there bro…….

2 pages ago you stated the following to me

😂 You seem to be the one who's ranting. You ok Hun?

Taken from The Journal:
SUNDAY SHUTDOWN

Passengers have reported long waits at bag check-in and security in the terminal.

A POWER OUTAGE at Dublin Airport has been resolved but passengers travelling from Terminal Two are being warned of potential delays persisting as they make their way through the airport this morning.

Passengers have reported experiencing long waits at bag check-in and security in the terminal. Queues were seen stretching outside of the terminal building into the car park area.

The airport suffered a loss of power in parts of Terminal Two due to an ESB power outage in north Co Dublin.

In a statement, the airport authority confirmed that the power issue has now been resolved.
“The nature of the outage caused an issue with the airport’s back-up generators, which resulted in some delays for passengers checking-in at T2,” it said, adding that “most flight operations continued as normal throughout the incident”.

It apologised to passengers who were inconvenienced by the issues.

“Dublin Airport’s teams worked to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and to ensure the return of power to T2,” it said.

“Following the resumption of power to T2, queues continue to ease but some delays are likely for the remainder of Sunday morning.

“As always, passengers seeking updates regarding specific flights should contact their airline directly.”

Looking for what I thought should be the obvious source of information on the outage, I tried the Airport website. Nothing (at least if there was something it was well hidden). Why are public bodies such poor communicators?