Dublin Airport Mayhem

Only you can decide if that risk is worth taking. You might be perfectly fine but you might not. Personally, I'd rather be early than stressing about whether I'll make a flight or not.

Well for the US you need to clear immigration. For other flights they generally use larger planes. And check in takes longer and boarding usually happens earlier , Ryanair can turn a plane around in 5 minutes. Ethihad for example take much longer.

Passing through security at Dublin Airport I had paper money in my shirt pocket. The security person asked me to take it out and place it in the tray before I walked through the metal detector thingy. Why do I need to do this? It's only paper. If it was hiding metal, the detector would have spotted it.

Not nice to see the tray move along ahead of you and out of sight on the conveyor belt, while you are stuck at the back of the queue waiting to walk through.

They probably wanted to have the option to swab it for traces of cocaine/drugs

my s22 ultra came out with a small crack on left edge of screen just after us customs xray screening, no idea how it happened...

luckily screen protector saved it, haunted..wudda been a bad start to trip

Anyway,, 1st security said 40 mins on screen, it took prob 1hr, us preclearance took another 40 minutes..not so bad. food options after us pre is shocking. A pre packed sandwich is 7 euro. the WHSmith has chocolate and crisps, only that one cafe/restaurant had food options at exorbitant prices even for an airport. Badly needs further options. Also noticed it wad quite dirty in seating areas. Expected better

Apart from the metallic strip there is the requirement to check all pockets on the person.Carrying that money visibly in shirt pocket requires extra time to check it.A minute here,a minute there and what about mounting delay each time.Better to put it in a tray or as others say bag it and put on a tray.I bet the pocket millionaire put their wallet and change in a tray.

Or how about people take personal responsibility and don't make a mess. So much of the complaining about the toilets is because people litter them, or don't flush or whatever but it's people who don't give a damn that cause the mess.

My experience flying out from Dublin to Birmingham on early Friday morning (got to the airport at 4am (the 2 and a half hours early we were advised to by Ryanair in their email) wasn't too bad. We found the longest queue was scanning the boarding card, once we were through that, the X-ray scanner part only took a few minutes. Half an hour, give or take and we were done and waiting at the gate.

Contrast that with Birmingham today, unmitigated chaos. Never, in probably about fifteen years of using that airport have I seen it as bad. They were queuing almost outside the door just to get up to the departure floor (though you could avoid that queue by using the lift) Over 2 ½ hours to get through security, I counted at least six scanner lanes closed, and about the same amount of boarding card scanners roped off.

Gate had supposedly closed by the time we got there. Needn't have worried though because the flight was then delayed nearly an hour because Birmingham didn't have anyone to take an assistance passenger off what was going to be our plane.

Of course I felt sorry for the passengers (and felt sorry for myself!😃) but jebus working as understaffed as they looked to be must be a feckin tough gig.

Maybe all budget airline passengers cant hold it and then see toi o let signage

Toilet cleaner smell is worse than the natural smell in toilets everywhere and way too much used.It's the cleaners who have lost any sense of smell or it's revenge cleaning.

I’ve a genuine question, how did you manage to turn it into a green agenda thing ?