Dublin Airport Mayhem

This is a much better approach that getting so wound up you'll give yourself a stroke.

Having said all that I'm wouldn't like to be flying out of Dublin for the next few weeks/months and am glad my next couple of flights are out of knock.

The reason for that is to get everyone checked in for the flight thru the gate and accounted for.

That way Joe Kiefer and family on the high stool up in the bar scratching his hoop can be identified

and called by name to the gate without delaying everybody who got there on time.

Or their baggage can be removed and these gormless kernts can’t fuhherke up everyone else.

Presume that explains your problem?

Aaah ok ,sorry bout that.

Didnt realise you were good with Whacker and his mates rambling down to the gate 15 minutes after departure time.

Apologies for for that.

The problem is the security protocols at different airports are so inconsistent something like that could never work. Some airprots you have to take your watch off, others you don't. I sometimes bring a camera and depending on the airport I can either leave it in my bag, have to take it out of my bag or even remove it from the case as well.

People who hold up the queue aren't a recent thing. They've always been an issue, particularly during school holidays when you get the once a year holiday to the sun type of travellers. Annoying though they are there's not a lot you can do about it. It has nothing to do with the staff related delays at Dublin Airport.

I'm flying to Manchester at 6.30am this Saturday morning, realistically what time should I be in the airport, I have fast track bought if that makes a difference.

I wouldn’t. As it has no bearing on the work done.

Id like to know if they are even provided with free parking when they do these out if hours shifts where there's zero public transport to and from the airport.

Who can afford to run a car on those payments? The contractor takes no responsibility how you get or return from your place of work!

Yes I don't even know how they can afford rent.

The salary is so low it actually opens them up to being corrupted.

I find it gas that posters are blaming other passengers for the delays when the inefficacy of security screening has been flagged by a few posters here for years.

Nobody is being blocked when reaching the head of the queue. There are 3 positions in parallel at each belt and if you're really lucky with the queue layout that day you might have 6 positions from both sides to pick from. One or two people needing extra help at the belt doesn't block a queue as there is still likely one moving.

It has frustrated me so much for years pre covid to see huge queues yet only 4 belts open. Everything about the rostering of work and organisation of security has been so badly managed for years yet posters here are quick to criticise someone taking too long at a position.

I've never seen a problem with having all the security belts operating all day, even at quieter times. The airport earns enough money to pay people to sit there and screen bags. So what if they've nothing to do for a few minutes between passengers. It doesn't have to be a frenzy the whole time.

Very good point. It just takes one, and what are the security staff who oversee the staff on the queues paid I wonder?

I'm not sure who has overall charge of security anyway, is it DAA, some Department or other, the Airport police, etc. I dunno.

Seriously? That’s pure crazy!

nice to see DAA paying top wages to maintain the security of passengers.

flew out end of February and queues were not bad in T2. Second screening in TSA area was empty. Staff were efficient and courteous.