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Dublin Airport - Terminal 2 - how long are security queues?

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  • #32
    helimachoptor
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    schemingbohemia wrote: »
    I'd want to arrive earlier myself. If you go with airport genie that would help but you say you plan to arrive at 6am do you usually stick to your plans? Not being smart but unless you've an easy guaranteed quiet and quick route to terminal 2 nothing should be taken for granted, but that's just me.

    I'm in T2 for a lot of 7:30/8am flights and normally get through screening in about 10 mins.

    I may arrive 5:45 just to be that bit cautious


  • #33
    Penalty
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    A trick going through security us to pick the right line. For some reason at busy times all the queues start at roughly the same point - yet the actual X-ray machine is a lot further away for some queues perhaps more than twice the distance and hence twice the time.

    I travel nearly every 2nd week and for a European trip arrive roughly 1 hour before flight. If checking in bags I'd give it another 15 - 20 mins.

    Have never come close to missing a flight.


  • #34
    Shannon Control
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    Would getting through the entrance at 5:20 be enough to catch a T2 6:40 flight? Should be ok just want to confirm, haven't flown T2 early morning in a while.


  • #35
    Eponymous
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    Yeah, you'd be fine with that. Passed through on 1st November at 5:30 for a 6:50 flight. It took around 20-25 minutes to clear through security and the queues were the worst I've seen in T2 (maybe due to bank holiday). Impossible to pick a line as there seemed to be muppets in every line that needed to be told about liquids, shoes, belts and tablets/laptops...

    I even heard a couple behind me (not much older than me either) figuring out how they'd sneak their phones through as they saw a sign overhead for no mobile phones or cameras. I had to explain that it just meant they couldn't use them in the area, not that they were forbidden... Very relieved they were.


  • #36
    spurious
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    Eponymous wrote: »
    Yeah, you'd be fine with that. Passed through on 1st November at 5:30 for a 6:50 flight. It took around 20-25 minutes to clear through security and the queues were the worst I've seen in T2 (maybe due to bank holiday). Impossible to pick a line as there seemed to be muppets in every line that needed to be told about liquids, shoes, belts and tablets/laptops...

    I even heard a couple behind me (not much older than me either) figuring out how they'd sneak their phones through as they saw a sign overhead for no mobile phones or cameras. I had to explain that it just meant they couldn't use them in the area, not that they were forbidden... Very relieved they were.

    Do you think the sort of people described above (and the airport is infested with them) haven't flown before, have flown before but pay no heed to anything going on around them, or are just thick?

    I would hate to have them ahead of me in an emergency evacuation of a plane.


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  • #37
    coylemj
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    spurious wrote: »
    Do you think the sort of people described above (and the airport is infested with them) haven't flown before, have flown before but pay no heed to anything going on around them, or are just thick?

    You meet people everywhere who lack the skills of basic co-ordination and organisation, it's just that they really only affect you directly when you find yourself behind them in the security queue in an airport.


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