Dublin Airport Mayhem

You should see the state of the baggage hall behind the scenes... the loading belts directly behind arrivals in T1 have been dismantled to be replaced with a new system to connect between T1 and T2 so people won't have to drive between them for transfer bags and such, but that is half done and is now going to be untouched due to the construction works being contracted else where for the year.

Meanwhile literally all bags are being loaded in a chutes area (primarily Ryanair), and the basement area (where belts 6-10 are, below) where Sky Handling and Swiss Swissport are loading for all their flights fighting for space basically. The belt down there is an absolute disaster frequently getting blocked due to so many bags, and MANY bags don't even get down there instead going to the Chutes area where it's left to OCS to bring down those bags. Due to this bags often miss their flights, creating a backlog of rush bags. DAA hasn't fixed the computer system that sorts out the bags all year, instead opting for OCS to cover the issue.

Why DAA hasn't moved some of the large Airlines to T2 to help alleviate the overcrowding is beyond me... absolutely inept organisation.

I seriously advise people to not leave it late for checking in, there's a high likelihood your bag would miss the flight!! Last bags sent to planes are typically half an hour before scheduled departure, they start closing the plane 15 minutes to, and it takes 5+ minutes for bags to show up on the belt to be loaded assuming it didn't go for additional screening.

Maybe a stupid question, but if you are flying out of T1 can you still go through security in T2? The last two flights I got out of Dublin both said I was leaving from T2, checked in my bags, went through security but my gate was actually back in T1, so I'm wondering would it still work if your boarding pass didn't say T2 or would they turn you around?

What is considered peak hours at the airport? Flying at 11am on the 8th of April which is a Friday. The bus times mean I am going to be there at stupid o clock before my flight but it may play in my favour at this rate.

Plenty of EU airports don't

Thank you!

It'll be prime time for teachers returning to the middle east coz of spring break too. I'm hoping it'll calm down some in the next week or so. 🤞🏼

UAE has stopped online learning now so even with Ramadan the teachers will need to be back.

Anyway, doesn't matter to me now as my Mam tested positive this morning so I am cancelling my trip. I was flying tonight 🤦‍♀️

Hope you enjoy being in Abu Dhabi. It's my home now

What’s the minimum connecting from longhaul flts in Schipol.

A one hour delay shouldn’t have resulted in a missed connection?

You were traveling between two non Schengen countries.

Were you connecting to a KLM flight or another airline

Had you a through ticket or two separate tickets.

was your baggage if any tagged thru to Dub.

Just wondering…….. all questions relevant.☺️

Excellent….. surprised they would book you on a one hour connection though, I would have thought that at least two hours would be a safer connection given the immigration profile of your trip.

Anyway hope you cleared out the mini bar in the hotel !!

What’s wrong with Garda vetting ? Loads of volunteer coaches get it done

Can you not see that the amount of time people spend faffing about to get through security is part of the problem. The whole liquids thing is in ages now and you still have people messing with bags, trying to bring more, not having them out etc. It's really really basic stuff. As I approach the head of the que everything is in my jacket pockets, jacket zip down, liquids and laptop out. And don't start me on the idiots that stand when they get though looking at a clogged conveyor belt and don't move the empty trays. Yes I get it, it's not your tray, some ignorant cúnt left it there but yer gear is not going to come till that conveyor is cleared. So lets stand like gormless idiots or fecking move them out of the way. Having to get up at four is bad enough but having to permeate through the porridge of idiocy/ignorance that is security kills me.

no doubt it can slow things down - but this has nothing to do with the current problems

I've travelled enough through the airport to see this happening again and again. It does add to it though and Feisar is entirely correct. I've stood in those queues numerous times watchin gormless idiots do exactly as Feisar describes. In the end I just accepted that a percentage of the population were/are just thick as shite. Always gave myself plenty of time though, to accommodate.