Dublin Airport Mayhem

For a country that relies such a lot on international tourism, Dublin Airport must be a complete turn off for visitors, and must give a terrible impression of us as a country. However domestic travellers probably make up the majority of traffic and they deserve a decent airport also. It's not as if DAA is bankrupt. I'm disgusted at how hit and miss that airport is. Sometimes you can get through fine, other times you'd be having a sweat filled panic attack when you see the Q for security. I dunno....

I always thought food and drink concessions were big earners in an airport, you know captive audience and all that, but seems that it is also shambolic now too. As for cleanliness, I agree it is not up to standard at all. We deserve better.

I just can't understand the lack of customer care, I just can't. Maybe we don't complain enough, but it's hard to do on the spot when you're racing to catch a flight because you barely made it through security despite being there hours ahead. I suppose an email to CEO of DAA will go in the bin, the Minister will just take another toke of whatever he is smoking today and fall asleep. Maybe the Tourism Minister might help, but no one seems to give a shiny sh!t at all. I often wonder if the fact that both ministers are Greens is a factor, you know.... we should all cycle to the Costas etc.

Anyway, I'm not flying anywhere for a while, at least until the Summer rush is over, so best of luck to all those arriving and leaving, enjoy your holliers.

I quite liked Dublin airport as an airport pre-pandemic... apart from the ludicrous taxi and gate issues, as well as the general passport checking of UK arrivals, the terrible bus area, the lack of the rail link, but since the pandemic it seems to have fallen apart completely. What with Quickpark closed, incredible pricing at the other carparks, security queues, filth everywhere, queues and extremely poor food options, ground handling delays, absurd baggage delivery times, a dreadful lounge with no hot food, and everything else. It seems as if it has the problems of all mid-sized airports at the moment, but has compounded them.

Will a bus arriving at 540am be enough time to make a 720am flight this Sunday morning?

What have security times been like at 530-6am lately?

Thanks.

Pat would clear the shelves if that limit wasn’t there….nothing surer.

Went thru T2 yesterday (Saturday) around 12 noon. Check-in & bag drop for Emirates were very quick, security "snake" was about 7-8 folds deep, but kept moving and was done in around 40 minutes. Once airside T2 was fine, but Emirates was at gate 306, which is T1. And T1 looked a lot busier, and once at the gate, it was super crowded and filthy. Toilets were filthy and stench was flowing outside into the waiting area. It didn't help that two large long haul flights were loading up next to each other at the same time.

Dubai airport seems to meat and clean as always. What the hell happened to Dublin?!!

Dubai airport have as many low paid Indian staff as they want. Average pay is €100 per week.

Went through T1 today around 5 took about an hour 35 to get through, queue zig zagged all the way back to check in desk 9

I've got a flight leaving in the morning to Canada, departing 10:15.

Any suggestion on what time to get there? I'd really prefer to get breakfast at the hotel before going down as airplane food is muck but that would mean not reaching the airport til about 7:45, 2hr 30min before my flight.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

We do have luggage but will be checked in online. Daft question but does that mean we just use a bag drop and go to security?

Feel like a tube asking but it's been so damn long since we flew anywhere.