Charges for dropoff and collect to be imposed in Dublin airport

magicbastarder

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/dublin-airport-gets-green-light-to-charge-drivers-for-dropping-off-and-collecting-friends-and-family-41420548.html

what nonsense, done in the name of sustainability. people will still be going to the airport using the same mode of transport, this won't change that. it's just a revenue generating measure.

Spook_ie

I can see the reasoning for charging pick up fees, you only need to drive up to see cars waiting and queuing to collect people, but charging to drop off seems a tad zealous, I suppose it will depend if there is a 10 minute free from fees or similar.

washman3

The lunatics have well and truly taken over the asylum in this country. And hardly a word of anger about it anwhere, so far anyway.

Pussyhands

Is there anything in Ireland where the maximum euro isn't squeezed out of us?

A recession is needed to teach them a lesson.

AndrewJRenko

Why do drivers feel entitled to get all their sh1t for free? Buses and taxis pay a levy to access the airport, so why shouldn’t drivers pay a contribution towards the facilities they use?

Gotta laugh at the folks paying a good chunk of their disposable income to spin around in their massive SUVs, with four empty seats much of the time, dropping a couple of grand on their city break, whinging about paying a couple of quid for parking.

If you don’t like the charge, then fly less often or drive less often or both. Your grandchildren will thank you for it,

https://twitter.com/code4luke/status/1500651018350125060?s=21

magicbastarder

even if you take that argument at face value, the claim it's being done for sustainability is hollow. they could have claimed it was to reduce congestion, or people using the dropoff area at departures as a collection area for arrivals.

and you can forgive people for being cynical when it's so difficult for people to get there by public transport which doesn't involve a taxi.

FlubberJones

Not a surprise, it's been in Heathrow for a while now and it 100% feels like a revenue measure, its there and nothing can be done.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749650#Comment_118749650

They say the income is going into sustainability developments, so there is that.

is it really that hard to travel by bus or coach? Air coach cover much of the city, Bus Eireann has some good connections, the 16 route connects to the city centre and parts of the south side. If Dublin Coach gets back up and running, they were providing excellent connectivity to the Red Cow and more of the south side.

spurious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749456#Comment_118749456

A ten or even five minute free period would be fine. I don't understand people who sit there in cars waiting. Have they no phones?

There are a number of free parking spots within 5 minutes drive where a person can wait to be texted - passengers text you to say they are ready, drive round, into car, out. Job done.

Pussyhands

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749637#Comment_118749637

Buses and Taxis essentially run a business using the service provided by the airport. A man dropping his wife off at the airport has no profit.

People are already paying for the service they use through airport services and airline tickets who in turn pay the airport money out of that.

And tax payers just gave another 80m euro to Dublin Airport a few months ago. https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2021/1214/1266742-govt-funding-of-almost-108m-announced-for-airports/

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749749#Comment_118749749

But that would require a modicum of intelligence. It's far easier to whinge and groan and moan about "them" ripping us off. If people had respected the set down facility rather than abusing it to park while picking up arrivals, then this probably wouldn't have been necessary.

feelings

There is no way in hell that DAA should be allowed to access a ANPR database or store one.

whisky_galore

Another Joe Public shakedown under the guise of 'de environmint'.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749793#Comment_118749793

That's for the ODPC to decide.

Dodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749737#Comment_118749737

The bus service is terrible to the vast majority of the city. They even scrapped one of the airport buses recently. You can forget about catching an early flight with public transport. Oh and any more than one piece of hand luggage and you’re goosed too

If they had a rail connection to the city (metro etc), they might have an argument but I live fairly central in Dublin and it would take me nearly 90 minutes to get to Dublin airport. I’ll pay the charge to drop off my wife when she’s flying because it’s quicker, cheaper and safer.

Its simply a revenue raising measure. Anyone who argues otherwise is stretching credibility

Hurrache

It really should have been held off until there was better public transport to and from the airport. I can drive to the airport in about 15 minutes, but can't get any form of direct public transport other than an expensive taxi. If I was to use a bus, I'd have to get one into the city centre, and then one back out again. Even take Dublin 15 as an example, there's no direct connection to what's basically an adjacent airport, hasn't been any in about 15 years.

SteM

Blanch and Tallaght, 2 huge areas within 30 minutes motorway drive of the airport and neither have public transport to the airport as far as I'm aware.

Murph85

Put a bloody metro out there first and then talk about this nonsense !

Fandymo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749637#Comment_118749637

Last I checked the airport wasn't free. DAA is owned by the state, US!!!!

El Tarangu

I've been in the airport a few times recently, and can really see the case to be made that cars making drop-offs are charged the same as whatever the charge is for the first 30 minutes of parking - loads of cars idling in the drop-off area that were clearly waiting for someone's flight to arrive, looking to avoid paying the fee for the car park and blocking up the lanes for everyone else in the process.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749782#Comment_118749782

What has ‘making a profit’ got to do with anything? What has additional subsidies paid to DAA got anything to do with subsidising motorists?

ALL passengers pay passenger charges through their airlines. Those who arrive by bus and taxi pay additional charges for us of those facilities. Why shouldn’t motorists pay additional charges for use of motorist facilities?

p_haugh

"They even scrapped one of the airport buses recently."

If you're talking about the Airlink, the 747 (at least) has been in essence replaced by the Dublin Express service. Which, mind you, is cheaper than what the Airlink was, quicker, and in a more comfortable coach imo.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749889#Comment_118749889

US!!! <> motorists. Not everyone drives.

Time for motorists to start paying their way and stop being subsidised by the rest of us.

p_haugh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749851#Comment_118749851

Under Bus Connects, the N8 will be introduced, which will provide Blanch with a link to the airport (and then onto Clongriffen) via the m50. Mind you, it will be another year or so at least until you'll even see that route.

Fandymo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749913#Comment_118749913

In what way is dropping/collecting someone at the airport subsidised by anyone else?

magicbastarder

i randomly picked a spot in clontarf (junction of seafield road and vernon avenue) and asked google maps to calculate the trip from there to the airport; 19 mins by car, 1h3mins was the shortest possible by public transport; and that option involves 3 buses.

SteM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749910#Comment_118749910

It's been so long since I'd travelled from the city centre to the Airport I didn't even realise the 747 was gone. Didn't the 747 use the port tunnel? Does the Dublin Express service use it or does it go up through Drumcondra do you know?

devnull

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749970#Comment_118749970

Uses port tunnel.

The Nal

This was rejected last March.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/council-turns-down-daa-plan-for-paid-drop-off-and-pick-up-zones-at-dublin-airport-1.4506844

Approved now. If we had a halfway decent public transport system them Id be ok with it. But, alas, its abysmal.

p_haugh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749970#Comment_118749970

Dublin Express goes from heuston all the way down the quays and then through the tunnel. Yes the 747 also did this, but it also did a detour along the way via O'Connell Street -> Parnell Square -> Gardner Street -> Connolly, before getting back to the Quays.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118749832#Comment_118749832

Early flights and luggage are no problem on Aircoach or Dublin Coach. There was an Airport Hopper shuttle from Tallaght pre Covid.

If you’re fairly central to Dublin, try the 16 or the Aircoach. If not, pay the small extra fee to cover the additional facilities you are using.