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Airport Tips&Tricks (incl baggage-drop;connecting-flight & terminal-info)

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    #932
    nailer54321
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭nailer54321


    Will be in T1 at 6am, is it wort while getting fasttrack, normally travel outside peak time so unsure about how busy it will be,


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    #933
    Caranica
    Registered Users Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    nailer54321 wrote: »
    Will be in T1 at 6am, is it wort while getting fasttrack, normally travel outside peak time so unsure about how busy it will be,

    Yes it is. That's security rush hour


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    #934
    nailer54321
    Closed Accounts Posts: 391 ✭✭nailer54321


    @caranica , Thanks for that.


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    #935
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,034 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Vodafone are giving free Fasttrack vouchers and unfortunately Dublin airport haven't responded to the increase in fasttrack customers, so it's a lot slower that it used to be.

    Hey DAA, how about opening TWO security lines for FASTTRACK


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    #936
    Stephen Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 982 ✭✭✭Stephen Strange


    smurfjed wrote: »
    Vodafone are giving free Fasttrack vouchers and unfortunately Dublin airport haven't responded to the increase in fasttrack customers, so it's a lot slower that it used to be.

    Hey DAA, how about opening TWO security lines for FASTTRACK

    It may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think families with kids should be allowed to use fasttrack. There is no way you can be quick going through security with kids and it slows the process down


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    #937
    delricyo
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭delricyo


    Stephen Strange wrote: »
    It may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think families with kids should be allowed to use fasttrack. There is no way you can be quick going through security with kids and it slows the process down

    I don't think you are on your own with that opinion. The last time in the airport I was offered fast track as a paid perk. Just as I got through, I saw a big group of people with kids being let through. Luckily I was ahead of them. I would have been a bit annoyed if they got a free pass through, after i had paid for it.


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    #938
    endofrainbow
    Registered Users Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭endofrainbow


    not an unpopular opinion at all - I do think there should be family designated lines though


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    #939
    Stephen Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 982 ✭✭✭Stephen Strange


    endofrainbow wrote: »
    not an unpopular opinion at all - I do think there should be family designated lines though

    Family and additional assistance lanes are common in the US, maybe something DAA should look at.


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    #940
    Credit Checker Moose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Credit Checker Moose


    There is already a family lane in T1 it is too the extreme left of the bar code scanners.


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    #941
    dealhunter1985
    Registered Users Posts: 523 ✭✭✭dealhunter1985


    Flying with Aer Lingus and wondering how the seating allocation works if we are 2 people, and the only 2 seats remaining beside each other are the ones you have to pay for... There isn't 2 of the free seats beside each other.
    If I were to choose the sit us anywhere option, would it separate us into the free seats, or would it keep us together and allocate us the seats you normally would have to pay extra for?


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    #942
    Stephen Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 982 ✭✭✭Stephen Strange


    dealhunter1985 wrote: »
    Flying with Aer Lingus and wondering how the seating allocation works if we are 2 people, and the only 2 seats remaining beside each other are the ones you have to pay for... There isn't 2 of the free seats beside each other.
    If I were to choose the sit us anywhere option, would it separate us into the free seats, or would it keep us together and allocate us the seats you normally would have to pay extra for?

    Separate you most likely.


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    #943
    Credit Checker Moose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Credit Checker Moose


    You are on Aer Lingus. They will seat you together.


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    #944
    Locker10a
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭Locker10a


    dealhunter1985 wrote: »
    Flying with Aer Lingus and wondering how the seating allocation works if we are 2 people, and the only 2 seats remaining beside each other are the ones you have to pay for... There isn't 2 of the free seats beside each other.
    If I were to choose the sit us anywhere option, would it separate us into the free seats, or would it keep us together and allocate us the seats you normally would have to pay extra for?

    They don’t pull the Ryanair stunt unless you’re the absolute last handful to check in. Check in online, you can choose your seats free 30 hours before departure


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    #945
    endofrainbow
    Registered Users Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭endofrainbow


    dealhunter1985 wrote: »
    Flying with Aer Lingus and wondering how the seating allocation works if we are 2 people, and the only 2 seats remaining beside each other are the ones you have to pay for... There isn't 2 of the free seats beside each other.
    If I were to choose the sit us anywhere option, would it separate us into the free seats, or would it keep us together and allocate us the seats you normally would have to pay extra for?

    The kinda defeats the purpose of paying for seats. Nobody would pre-pay for seats if that was the case. You don't even tell us where you are flying to - routes determines loads.


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    #946
    Locker10a
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭Locker10a


    endofrainbow wrote: »
    The kinda defeats the purpose of paying for seats. Nobody would pre-pay for seats if that was the case. You don't even tell us where you are flying to - routes determines loads.

    People pay to guarantee certain seats, but they don’t separate people who check in together purposely, obviously if you’d among the last handful to check in you’ll get what’s available


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    #947
    michellie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,691 ✭✭✭michellie


    endofrainbow wrote: »
    not an unpopular opinion at all - I do think there should be family designated lines though

    Absolutely! I've travelled a lot this year, 2 kids(1 baby- had to get bottles and baby food swabbed) , such a relief when you're done going through security.


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    #948
    Credit Checker Moose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭Credit Checker Moose


    Are there any computers in Departures where I can print a boarding pass?


    I am flying Blue Air to Bucharest and I don't think they will accept the pdf on my phone.


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    #949
    Davy
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,340 CMod ✭✭✭✭Davy


    No computer you can logon to, but you can email the PDF at the luggage wrap stations and they will print it off for the tidy sum of €6.

    Can you not ask at the check-in desk for a re-print of the boarding pass?


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    #950
    VG31
    Registered Users Posts: 3,392 ✭✭✭VG31


    Why don't you just get it printed at the check-in desk?

    "If you prefer to check-in personally at the airport, no problem. We ask you come to see us at the check-in desk two hours before your scheduled departure time. This gives us enough time to arrange take-off and means you won't have to rush! Airport check-in is free of charge."

    https://www.blueairweb.com/en/gb/check-in-info/

    Ryanair charge for airport check-in but they are the exception rather than the rule. Even easyJet don't charge for airport check-in. The only other European airlines I am aware of that charge for airport check-in are Wizz Air, UIA and airBaltic. airBaltic will still print boarding passes for free however.


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    #951
    tiredblondie
    Registered Users Posts: 706 ✭✭✭tiredblondie


    Flying out of T2 in a couple of weeks on an 11.30am flight on a Tuesday - never travelled out of T2 before, do the security queues be as busy as T1?

    Is it worth paying extra for Fast Track?


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    #952
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,334 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    That's a relatively quiet time to be flying, I wouldn't pay for Fasttrack. Excluding US flights (they will have gone through security much earlier), today there's only 6 flights departing T2 between 10 a.m. and 12.

    Disclaimer....... the number of security queues in operation varies depending on passenger throughput and people on the early flights tend to be business travellers who know what not to pack so you could zoom through when it's mad busy at 6 a.m. and at 11 a.m. you could get stuck behind an elderly couple wearing chunky jewellery and with lots of liquids in their bags.


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    #953
    tiredblondie
    Registered Users Posts: 706 ✭✭✭tiredblondie


    coylemj wrote: »
    That's a relatively quiet time to be flying, I wouldn't pay for Fasttrack. Excluding US flights (they will have gone through security much earlier), today there's only 6 flights departing T2 between 10 a.m. and 12.

    Disclaimer....... the number of security queues in operation varies depending on passenger throughput and people on the early flights tend to be business travellers who know what not to pack so you could zoom through when it's mad busy at 6 a.m. and at 11 a.m. you could get stuck behind an elderly couple wearing chunky jewellery and with lots of liquids in their bags.

    Its to the US that i am flying to.....

    True that about being stuck behind someone not prepared - drives me insane when people only start emptying their pockets and taking off their belts and so on right when they get to the top and look and act like they had no idea to do that!!


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    #954
    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,268 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    coylemj wrote: »
    That's a relatively quiet time to be flying, I wouldn't pay for Fasttrack. Excluding US flights (they will have gone through security much earlier), today there's only 6 flights departing T2 between 10 a.m. and 12.

    Disclaimer....... the number of security queues in operation varies depending on passenger throughput and people on the early flights tend to be business travellers who know what not to pack so you could zoom through when it's mad busy at 6 a.m. and at 11 a.m. you could get stuck behind an elderly couple wearing chunky jewellery and with lots of liquids in their bags.

    Did you count Aer Lingus ? They say T2 but really use T1...


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    #955
    Cathmandooo
    Registered Users Posts: 17,324 ✭✭✭✭Cathmandooo


    tiredblondie wrote: »
    Its to the US that i am flying to.....

    True that about being stuck behind someone not prepared - drives me insane when people only start emptying their pockets and taking off their belts and so on right when they get to the top and look and act like they had no idea to do that!!

    I flew to USA noon on Wednesday two weeks ago, security at t2 was a breeze but preclearance took over an hour and a half, it was packed all the way back to their security. I hear once you're in that queue the plane can't leave without you so they call your flight and pull you to the front if your flight is due to leave. We arrived in the airport 3 hours before the flight, had a quick coffee before preclearance but only just made final call for boarding.


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    #956
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,334 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    ted1 wrote: »
    Did you count Aer Lingus ? They say T2 but really use T1...

    Yes, I've had that long walk. It's only some flights and the flight will be marked as departing from T2 regardless.

    Anyway, OP is flying to the US so it's definitely T2.


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    #957
    tiredblondie
    Registered Users Posts: 706 ✭✭✭tiredblondie


    Cathmandooo wrote: »
    I flew to USA noon on Wednesday two weeks ago, security at t2 was a breeze but preclearance took over an hour and a half, it was packed all the way back to their security. I hear once you're in that queue the plane can't leave without you so they call your flight and pull you to the front if your flight is due to leave. We arrived in the airport 3 hours before the flight, had a quick coffee before preclearance but only just made final call for boarding.


    Holy crap, you're joking!!
    Thought maybe half an hour at most at pre clearance!!


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    #958
    Caranica
    Registered Users Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    tiredblondie wrote: »
    Holy crap, you're joking!!
    Thought maybe half an hour at most at pre clearance!!

    There can literally be a thousand people in the queue. It can be very stressful so leave lots of time.


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    #959
    anacc
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭anacc


    tiredblondie wrote: »
    Holy crap, you're joking!!
    Thought maybe half an hour at most at pre clearance!!

    I’ve been through preclearance in 10 minutes and it’s also taken 90 minutes. It’s unpredictable so best advice is to turn up at the airport 3 hours before departure time.


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    #960
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,334 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    tiredblondie wrote: »
    Holy crap, you're joking!!
    Thought maybe half an hour at most at pre clearance!!

    You said you're flying on a Tuesday so on the Sunday or Monday before you're due to travel, go to https://www.dublinairport.com/flight-information/live-departures

    Set the date to the Tuesday, the terminal to 'Terminal 2 only' and look at the list of US flights falling within 60 or 90 minutes before and after your flight. That will give you a feel for how many people are likely to be using pre-clearance that morning at about the same time as you.

    You'll get a fair idea if you try it this Sunday or Monday as the schedule next Tuesday (Sept. 24th) will probably be the same as the Tuesday you will be flying.

    Edit: I see that on a web browser, you have to continuously press a button 'show more flights' at the bottom of the listing whereas if you use the Dublin airport smartphone app, it shows you a full list of the flights for the date and terminal you select.


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    #961
    tiredblondie
    Registered Users Posts: 706 ✭✭✭tiredblondie


    coylemj wrote: »
    You said you're flying on a Tuesday so on the Sunday or Monday before you're due to travel, go to https://www.dublinairport.com/flight-information/live-departures

    Set the date to the Tuesday, the terminal to 'Terminal 2 only' and look at the list of US flights falling within 60 or 90 minutes before and after your flight. That will give you a feel for how many people are likely to be using pre-clearance that morning at about the same time as you.

    You'll get a fair idea if you try it this Sunday or Monday as the schedule next Tuesday (Sept. 24th) will probably be the same as the Tuesday you will be flying.

    Edit: I see that on a web browser, you have to continuously press a button 'show more flights' at the bottom of the listing whereas if you use the Dublin airport smartphone app, it shows you a full list of the flights for the date and terminal you select.

    Thank you so much, that's really helpful!


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