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Dublin Airport security waiting times

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,737 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Thats hardly proof unless you know theres an equal amount of flights.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,974 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    There’s no fast track in operation at the moment. It’s been suspended for months now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    60+ missed the flight I was on - and it was 65 mins late taking off.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,574 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    Just seen this on the news.

    Whats causing it? Lack of staff?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭cromelex


    Not correct. They are not selling it on the site, but the fast track is still operating.

    I was travelling for work last Monday and went through fast-track at around 8.30 AM - it took me 30 minutes to go through security. The standard queue looked very big (ie, long queue but inside the terminal still) and they were advised 40 minutes to get past security at that point.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SusanC10


    Couple of questions :-

    *If you have no bags to check in and you already have your Boarding Pass do you need to join the queue outside the building? Are there separate queues for people who do and don't need to go to Check-in Desk / Bag Drop ?

    *If you have Advantage Fare with AL which has Fast Pass as an add-on, does this show on your Boarding Pass ?

    *Can you enter the airport building through Arrivals and get to Departures Security internally particularly if you already have your Boarding Pass and no bags to check?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    What are you suggesting people do then? If you arrived 2.5 hours before your flight this morning you weren’t making it. Simple as.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    This whole mess would make for a good study of human behaviour like the Stanford Prison Experiment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭cuttingtimber22


    This is down to bad management. The airport took a decision during the pandemic (despite massive state supports) to make people redundant. It is a national disgrace. No accountability.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,874 ✭✭✭touts


    Dalton Phillips and his utter inability to manage any organisation.

    He ran Morrisons into the ground and got sacked.

    He has run the DAA into the ground and is jumping over to Greencore before he gets sacked.

    Sell your Greencore shares now lads before he nosedives the share price towards the ground.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,353 ✭✭✭trellheim


    Just some Hits.

    ( BTW Dalton Phillips should NOT be allowed leave till he get off his hole and fixes this, it requires MONEY , it is not as if they do not have any )

    1. Fast track has stopped being sold by DAA but you can still buy it from Aer Lingus and Ryanair , its a tidy little earner for them
    2. Stairs up and down from Arrivals are blocked off and you are directed to the back of the queue
    3. The queue is for security screening
    4. https://www.rte.ie/news/2022/0529/1301834-dublin-airport/




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SusanC10


    So, if you do need to use Bag Drop, how does it work if that outside queue is for Security?



  • Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't believe Dalton Phillips is capable of fixing this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭emo72


    can we do anything right in this country? anyway ive avoided going away this year just cant hack flights and airports anymore. what a way to ruin a holiday. and then having to face it again at the end of a holiday? no chance. and you put all your hard earned money into this shite? fux sake.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Vittu


    1 hour yesterday morning. From start of queue outside at 5.30am to until i was through security scans and could put my belt back on. We were 2.5 hours early for flight. Ryanair flight then mossed its slot and sat on plane for another hour 😂😂😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    with respect, you weren’t there this morning.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭YellowFeather


    Jesus Christ, it was chaotic this morning. Arrived in at about 9am and the queues outside T1 were insane! Actually thought they were for taxis at first but, nope, just queuing to get INTO the airport!! Dreading flying back now.

    Edit, in saying that, I flew (heh) through passport control, unlike in Stansted last week which took well over an hour in the most bizarre and snaking queue I’ve ever seen. Think I made 6,000 steps just walking through it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    To the smart arse know it all’s who weren’t there this morning:

    Have a look at the queues. Have a look at Twitter. Have a look at the statement from DAA - and if they’re actually admitting it was that bad, then you know it’s bad; because their job in Communications is to put the best possible spin on things.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    I wasn’t down playing it, it is obviously a shambles, just making the observation.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,574 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie


    Fair enough. I don’t know anything about this dalton Philips guy but I imagine he has senior management plus middle management then supervisors etc underneath him who should know what to do or know what the problem is.

    Record numbers of passengers went through dublin airport pre pandemic without this level of delay, so what’s the difference now?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    in short, they made a large number of staff redundant during Covid and didn’t scale up again when they knew things were reopening. A large number of those staff were security staff, and it takes (apparently) 3-6 months to train up new security staff - which they can’t get because they’re basically only offering 20 hour contracts and there’s a shortage of staff in all industries at the moment. It’s an utter clusterfOCk of a shltshow, and is 100% of their own creation.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,081 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Amazed they're saying this still

    This comes as Dublin Airport chiefs have promised that passengers will get through security in 30 minutes or less from early June.


    In an interview with the Irish Independent, the Daa’s head of communications, Kevin Cullinane, said airport chiefs are days away from fixing some of the problems – although parking is likely to remain an issue for the summer.

    I think there's as much chance of me growing wings as there is of that happening.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,764 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Nobody is down playing it so there's no need to try label people as smart arse know it alls, its a mess. The DAA have multiple questions to answer and it looks like they'll be hauled infront of the transport committee now.

    But anyone who's flown out recently will also tell you there's people there 5hrs + before flights which adds to the issues. Today is clearly a DAA issue though with not enough staff rostered



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭cuttingtimber22


    CEOs say that high salaries are justified as they lead their managers, set the strategic direction, and good CEOs make the difference in terms of value add. This is not good management and this is damaging Ireland. Sorry no excuses.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,081 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Id imagine most would rather be there stupidly early than facing a 3-4 hour queue and still missing flights like it seems like people are now.

    I mean they said 4 and a half hours is realistic today.

    Speaking this afternoon, Dublin Airport’s Group Head of Communications Kevin Cullinane said it is now realistic to arrive at the airport four and a half hours before a long-haul flight, if you have baggage to check in or any queries to make.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,764 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    Today is quite clearly an extraordinary day where things have gone woefully bad. I know the point your make and I fully get it, but it's a valid observation on a normal day that more people arriving too early creates bottlenecks. Today isn't a normal day clearly



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭cuttingtimber22


    Except many people who have travelled through the airport in recent months see this as the new normal.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,081 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    Doesn't matter. If today can happen today, it can happen any day. Today shouldn't even be too busy. It's just a normal day. There's no matches people travelling to like yesterday and it's not a bank holiday weekend.



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  • Site Banned Posts: 916 ✭✭✭Denny61


    The problem stems from a lot of people turning up very late all together .thinking they are the only ones flying out...idiots ..ive always turned up 3 hours before flight



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