Dublin Airport Mayhem

Ah ok, that makes sense then..I was wronging them

Ryanair staff didn’t enforce masks on both legs of my flight to Lanzarote. Some people where wearing them but most weren’t. First time I had to mask up was in a taxi over there.

Out of curiosity does anyone know why there’s so many bags that look abandoned at the baggage area? There was loads beside Sky/Swissport desks, lined up beside belts and some just left on belts that where stopped.

I went through T2 this afternoon. Check in queues looked very long, but I only had hand luggage so went straight to security. I think the app showed 10 or 15 mins at the time, there were only 2 people ahead of me though so it was super fast. T2 seemed a bit more civilised than T1 overall, not as many people around and more empty seats, cafes etc not as crazy. Toilets were a bit yucky, but overall it wasn't a bad experience.

Jesus I've family members flying out of T1 for a 7.30am flight on Monday morning do I need to have them up there at 3am to start queuing? Did I read somewhere security is open 24 hours now?

If the DAA is saying that the number of passengers is down as against 2019 figures, think its around 25% ,maybe more, then how come the airport is in a complete mess this year. I don't remember ever this mayhem back in 2019 with higher numbers

The government since 2020 has cut the revenue DAA receive from each passenger by 24%. The DAA warned this would result in a huge negative impact on services, but they were ignored.

That 24% cut works out to about 2euro saved for each passenger - so a pretty pointless saving for individuals, but it really adds up for airport funding when you're talking tens of millions of passengers. I'm pretty sure everyone in those massive queues would happily pay 2euro towards hiring more security staff if given the option...

You can thank the Greens and Fine Gael for it.

T1 passenger numbers overall are only down 5% on 2019, with Fri & Sun about on par.

Security screening is taking longer due to increased levels of swabbing required, because of the failure security audit recently.

New screening staff getting up to speed with the job, which is very understandable.

Passengers who haven’t flown in a couple of years making basic errors with liquids, laptops etc

Flew from T2 this morning, was at airport at 4am, que was quite bad because out of 6 available departure gates - ONE was open

The DAA are a joke

I refuse to fly from Dublin anymore. There's other airports in the country!!!

My husband is a pilot and flies from Dublin. It is stressing him so much he is considering handing in his notice. On evenings he should be finishing work at 9pm, he doesn't finish before 12. Its the same every day. Luggage delays, passenger delays. He is left sitting in the plane waiting for the go ahead to take off. He is not getting paid any extra for all his extra hours each week he has a two hour commute on top of this. It is a nightmare.