Chaos at Dublin Airport

I was under the impression that the issues of a few weeks ago were resolved and things getting back to "normal" but that shiz is crazy. One of the lads flew over here last Wednesday, attempted to go up the escalator from arrivals to departures but got pointed to the queue outside (approx 18:00). It took him over an hour to get through security and it was fairly grim once through, no chance of a bit of hot food without another soul destroying queue.

I'll be flying into and out of Dublin twice over the next 3/4 weeks and I'm really not looking forward to it now - especially the 2nd trip with kids and luggage in tow

The situation is no doubt disgraceful and management can definitely act to change it but that takes time.

I'm not defending management BTW but when you sit down and analyse, there's no quick fix solution. It's not unique to Dublin, with queues out into the multistorey carpark in Manchester, delays in Edinburgh, huge crowds at Schipol etc.

There's been a colossal shift in the labour market generally in Europe and it will take time for individual companies and bodies on a microeconomic scale, to catch up and adapt to a wider macroeconomic problem.

First and foremost, that's wages. Simple supply and demand. And I think companies are only starting to comprehend that now and reluctantly implement change.

If we look back to 2010,2012 and that period, people were taking jobs at 8.65-9 euro region. There was no shortage of staff in the likes of McDonald's, retail and that. DAA were hiring in 2015 for 12.50 an hour. Again, no shortage of applicants, no issues with queues on this scale.

Now at 14.14 starting wage, there are huge staffing problems with a lack of ability to hire and retain. We're in a market where there are more jobs than labour supply and people have more options.

Personally I hope for wage increases at lower levels, and a subsequent "trickle up" affect into the salaries of other jobs.

But this staffing issue can be seen with queues at establishments generally and has not been created uniquely by DAA management, nor is it solely a Dublin Airport issue or even an airport issue. Its a labour supply issue generally affecting multiple sectors.

While I don't blame DAA for that, I do blame them for being slow in taking the opportunity to fix it, and make changes.

But I do think it's more complex than seeing problem A (crazy videos of queues) and within 5 seconds slating Management. When it's a combination of numerous problems, again not just unique to the Airport, or Ireland.

Can't DAA try to recruit some of those in the queues? They will miss their flight, will need some extra cash to rebook their holidays so why not to hire them on the spot?

On a serious note that is a disaster and not what people going for holidays are to expect.

Hope they will sort it out by the end of next month as I don't want to be in that queue.

Takes time? How long do they fecking need? This has been an issue for a good bit of time now and even pre pandemic Dublin airport was ****. If they haven't fixed it by now, they won't.

FFS a pick-up and trailer pulled across the entrance to block it!

What next silage bale chicane to slow traffic? Embarrassing.

It’s going to hit boiling point later in June when school holidays start.

The problems look to be mainly in T1?

It's like the bleedin Thunderdome these days

Boucher Hayes, you absolute idiot.

DAA actually owns/operates Cork airport, which is literally like tumbleweed there at times. All the funding and push has been at Dublin and other airports that would help national capacity have been forgotten.

now Dublin airport can’t cope.

when they opened the new terminal in cork they should have let Ryanair take over the old terminal like they wanted. But DAA wanted control. Cork could have many more flights to many other routes which would be good for all involved, especially the consumer who right now has to go to Dublin to fly to a lot of countries.

Typical Ireland, no ones to blame and incompetence is rewarded.

Is it all to do with cost cutting / getting rid of experienced staff on redundancy by DAA and then trying to rehire people on minimum wage but they cant get staff?

It's not even the queues which are bad enough. They can't even clean the toilets in the airport. There's an actual smell inside there at times.

Top story in the news and meeting with DAA being brought forward to first thing in the morning.

Loads of money will be thrown at this now in an inefficient manner.

A family member flew out to the States on Saturday and her luggage still hasn't turned up. Officially missing. Doubt she's the only one.

re route half the flights to shannon and cork 'simples sergei'

after all half the passengers are coming up from the sticks anyway so the drive home will not be a major inconvenience

And the destination airports will be ok with this ?