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Both runways in use

dfx- · 2010-08-03 00:17:04

I was flying out early morning on Sunday and after finally arriving at the gate, I saw a Ryanair plane taking off from the north/south runway 34 (?) - a pleasant change I thought. I've been on flights taking off from it before, but very rare. Then on board, I see an Aer Lingus A320 do the same, but with four or five jets…

03-08-2010 12:17am

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I was flying out early morning on Sunday and after finally arriving at the gate, I saw a Ryanair plane taking off from the north/south runway 34 (?) - a pleasant change I thought. I've been on flights taking off from it before, but very rare.

Then on board, I see an Aer Lingus A320 do the same, but with four or five jets lined up for the normal east/west runway 28(?). And then my flight, EI352 taxies out and 'skips' that queue by taking off from 34. A Palmair jet and private jet behind my flight heads off towards 28. Planes were landing onto 28..

Is it unusual to have both runways open at the same time? :eek:

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#2 03-08-2010 12:23am

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Not too sure to be honest!
For Dublin it`s usually Runway 10/28. As you said there was quite a bit of traffic on the taxiways so maybe they opened up the other runway to ease it??

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#3 03-08-2010 12:27am

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Its all been explained before on this thread. They do it in the mornings now to get departures away quicker

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#4 03-08-2010 2:02pm

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It's really cool. Last week we took off on 34 simultaneously with an EI A320 on 28.

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