Dublin Airport Mayhem

Only you can know if your flight is worth risking but fwiw here are this morning's security times around then:

Having said that, Saturday's queue time at 6am was less than half of what Sunday's turned out to be so it's a gamble.

So, arrived at T2 at around 03:50 and downstairs in check in was mental, really busy but thankfully I had carry on only.

Went up to departures and the queue was skaking from one side of the hall to the ather and about 7 or so rows ahead of me. Only 1 person scanning boarding cards at one door (out of 5)

Spend around 30 minutes queuing to get through the departure gate and then believe it or not, about 5 minutes getting through security. Plenty of queues open.

Queues for brekkie on the other hand?? Forget it.

Apologies in advance if this has been answered many times before. I know Aerlingus allow baggage to be dropped off the day before a flight. I have a morning flight with Ryanair coming up. If I tried to drop off baggage the evening before the flight would they take it? I'd like to try and reduce the queuing time with kids if possible at all, even if it means driving to Dublin airport two days in a row.

Yesterday, tea time, wait time in security was posted as 40 m, took 20. There were reams of people standing at AL check in in T2 (why?) We waltzed past to the self check in/ bag drop and were done in a few minutes.

All in all less than an hour. No queues for coffee either.

Quick update - arrived in T2 at 2.45am. Had done Bag Drop the evening before which was very fast. Maybe 20-ish people in Security queue. Security opened at 3am. Very efficient. Through by 3.15am.

Guy in front of us was acting the maggot tbh. American guy with his wash-bag full of liquid products. No sign of a 1L plastic bag. Kept arguing with the Security lady. They moved him to one side to continue the arguing.

All our bags arrived to our destination. Flight (Aer Lingus) on time too. Happy all round.

Has anyone used the Terminal 1 & 2 car parks recently? I've booked the T1 car park (block C) on Friday at 10am, I'm wondering will I get stuck in a traffic jam forever?

We have a midweek afternoon flight coming up with Aer Lingus within Europe. The advice seems to be to turn up 2.5 hours before the flight and an extra hour or so if you are checking baggage.

Aer Lingus baggage drop doesn't open until 2 hours prior to takeoff, so how are they are managing the queues?

Be grand, was in there less than 2 weeks ago. Loads of space and only problem was a fool who blocked the entrance (both lanes) for a minute or two. No real queues. Can be as handy as block A depending on where you park.

Passed through T1 yesterday at 2pm, queuing time was advertised as 35 mins but took 75 mins in the end. My carry on bag had extra screening which took forever even though I'm a regular flyer and had nothing out of the ordinary in it. It was annoying but I'm quite happy they were thorough at the same time. The departure area was chaotic with hardly anywhere to stand, nevermind sit with 4 gate changes for my flight. Got away in the end with a delay of 2 hours so not the worst.

Average would be 30m, but if Turkish's handler are having a bad day it could easily be much more. And the two main outsourced handlers in Dublin are both at high potential of having a bad day... I don't know who Turkish use.

I'm pretty certain Turkish use Swissport.

This guy must have got to Ireland with a 1L bag and small liquids so what the eff was he playing at?