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Dublin Airport Inefficencies

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  • 05-08-2007 1:16pm
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    arctictree
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    Just finishing up a 3 month spell of doing lots of travelling from Dublin to lots of airports around europe. I've noticed loads of inefficiencies in Dublin airport. For example:

    1) The current long term blue car park can take you 40 minutes to get to your car (including wait for bus, drive to car park etc)

    2) Generally planes in Dublin only open the front door to let passengers off when other airports use both doors.

    3) Had a situation when the plane arrived at the gate in torrential rain. Instead of using the gangway which was only a few feet away, we had to get off using the stairs and walk to the terminal.

    4) The taxi queues are ridiculous. Hundreds of passengers in queues and hundreds of taxis waiting to pick up customers! There is a bottleneck at the point where the customers are getting into the taxis.

    5) When you get the bus to the blue car park, it enters at the centre, has to drive all the way to the right and back, then all the way to the left and back! Why not just enter at one end and drive to the other dropping off people on the way!

    I could go on but the whole place just seems to be really inefficient! Any comments??


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    Bluetonic
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    arctictree wrote:
    2) Generally planes in Dublin only open the front door to let passengers off when other airports use both doors.

    3) Had a situation when the plane arrived at the gate in torrential rain. Instead of using the gangway which was only a few feet away, we had to get off using the stairs and walk to the terminal.

    These are airline issue, if the airline won't pay for the use of an air bridge then it's hardly an inefficiency of that airport.


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    arctictree
    Registered Users Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭arctictree


    Bluetonic wrote:
    These are airline issue, if the airline won't pay for the use of an air bridge then it's hardly an inefficiency of that airport.

    This was with aerlingus - who sometimes open both doors, sometimes dont. Sometimes use the air bridges and sometimes dont....


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    Wishbone Ash
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    arctictree wrote:
    1) The current long term blue car park can take you 40 minutes to get to your car (including wait for bus, drive to car park etc)
    The DAA always advise that you allow 45 minutes for parking and getting to the terminal and vice versa.
    artictree wrote:
    3) Had a situation when the plane arrived at the gate in torrential rain. Instead of using the gangway which was only a few feet away, we had to get off using the stairs and walk to the terminal.
    It's not the fault of the airport if the airline doesn't wish to pay for a bridge.
    artictree wrote:
    When you get the bus to the blue car park, it enters at the centre, has to drive all the way to the right and back, then all the way to the left and back! Why not just enter at one end and drive to the other dropping off people on the way!
    Fair point - allow me to explain. The Blue car park used to have 4 zones (U,V,W and X). They were to the left of the entrance. However due to increasing demand for spaces, the DAA acquired more land and developed to more zones on the right - Y and Z. The bus must service the zones in such a way that it arrives empty at the active zone and begins the cycle again.

    (It's ridiculous that they named the two additional zones Y and Z when there are already Y and Z zones in the Red car Park but that's a different fight!)


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