Dublin Airport security waiting times

Flew form Dublin early Monday morning (6.20 am flight). Security took 15 minutes, queue for coffee took 20 minutes. Does this require a new discussion????

It was long yesterday morning around 6.15, longer than the security queue

Should be ok, give it an extra 30 mins if you can though, to allow for parking and it being a saturday, end of schools etc. Ryanair's strength is the automatic bag drop, it's able to handle big numbers

Is there a specific time that Ryanair bag drop opens before a flight departs? Their website does not appear to be updated - and they don't mention anything beyond 2 hrs.

Anyone know if all passengers have to go to bag drop for Ryanair? Would like to send my wife and kids through security while I do bag drop for an early flight next week.

That'll be my plan. Not having the three kids standing with me if I have to queue

You can do this by storing the passes in the wallet on your phone and scrolling through them.

Got to the airport at 3.40 am at T1 we had to go through a queue system before entering the terminal and that took 20mins

Bag drop took 15 mins.

Security took 20 mins.

There was a queue for the coffee longer than the security queue.

Was about 1 hour too early but totally hassle free so I am happy.

That's true, but, I was thinking the same thing for a flight last weekend, and thinking I'd surely be through in 30-40 mins. However they don't include the endless zig-zag walking through barriers in the car parks and the queue to get into the terminal to join said 30 minute security queue....so it's a bit meaningless to say that people get through in 30 minutes, whilst ignoring the other queuing times. Having said that, I managed car-park to post-security in under an hour, so I'm not complaining, I think they're doing a fine job under the circumstances. But you cannot depend on the 30 minutes security queue for planning your arrival time.

It was really ridiculous, we walked from the shuttle drop off, into the ground level of the multi storey car park, up and down through the barriers (as in walked all the time ,no queue) then out of that car park, up the escalator to departures level, back into the car park, zig-zag through all of that, again no actual queue, walking all the time, then across the bridge and into a queue to enter the terminal. One felt like an absolute pleb walking up and down a car park...there was no reason for it as there was no queue, all it did was add walking time to reach the final queue.

If that was through T1, then that is sleepy time. It's the morning and afternoon peaks that are the issue when all of the DUB based aircraft depart in a very confined time period.

T2 has a slightly different wave with the Trans Atlantics going off later in the morning with big loads which sees T2 busier than T1.

Re: Queuing walk to enter the terminal. They should have an ability to bypass that when not needed.

Took an hr to get through the queues to get pass security just now. 2 queues outside the airport. The one at car drop off then the one just outside airport gate. Then when you get into airport then q to to security q, then into proper security q. So guts of an hr to get through all the queues. Didn't q for burger King etc. As seemed v busy at the pubs and restaurants etc. Flight in an hr.

Took 1h20m from getting out of the taxi to being in 51st & Green on Monday 25th.

Would have been faster except they insist on joining the regular check in desk queues to get a boarding pass (otherwise I'd have been straight through to security and saved ~25 minutes as I didn't have a bag to check). I'm sure its requested by the airlines, but the staff they have in the check in queue asking you about your trip to the US annoy the shite of me. Those questions are for CBP tbh, there's so much duplication of process to get from check in to post CBP.

Twice through DUB over the weekend, was nice and clear (both late night flights). Baggage area was still a mess but I don't travel with checked in baggage so not really my area.

On this, sometimes you'll get people faffing around taking calls/making calls, tweets, insta etc. They then get to the top of the queue and are shocked to realise they have to engage their brain again. Not what you were doing but it's why the security people are over the top about phone use when getting close to the area. You, no doubt, are able to quickly close you phone and pop it into a tray but there are a lot of people who struggle with the basics out there. 😂

So they leave you in a queue for half and hour before they deign to serve you and they regulate any ability to make use of that time in the queue?

Lovely people.

But why? How does it impact on the security of the flights or the employees?

Seems like an over reaction. If a video or picture gives a terrorist an edge in getting past security i would not have much faith in the standard of security. I have not been called out on this at other airports, including the US.

It is not a huge imposition I agree but it is annoying that you cannot use that dead waiting time (only slow due to DAA poor planning, design or over staffing) for some productive use.

It seems like an overreaction alright but that's the whole point of airport rules generally. They're not for the average Joe Bloggs with his phone out sending an email.

Likewise, getting swabbed randomly for explosives isn't for Jim heading away on a golfing holiday. But at some point, the rules to deter a one in a million chance, need to apply to everyone in order to be effective.

If one has their phone out, then everyone has their phone out, because its no big deal. Then, completely hypothetical, you've two or three lads seperate to each other in a general queue whatsapping each other what machine just had a random swab (thereby reducing the odds of a random swab a few mins later, and baddie A with whatever on him heads to that one)

Given no airport in the world wants to be "the one" to take the hit on that, and all the other procedures we've to go through at an airport anyway, going without the phone for a bit isn't too unreasonable imo.

The only overreaction here is the whinging about being asked to put your phone away for 10-20 minutes

most likely its part of a checklist that when followed help to reduce the chances of bad things happening.