Dublin Airport New Runway/Infrastructure.

Anyone know what's going on on Level 3 of the T2 short term car park? It's been closed for over a month now and with the daa banging on about the lack of spaces you would think they would want this open.

Hainan airlines departing from the Ryanair gates… that's quite embarrassing

Including SAS, Icelandair, Air Transat, Westjet, Air Canada amongst others.

The allocation rules are published….

Embarrassing for who? If it is embarrassing when it's a widebody, why is it not if it's a narrowbody (possibly holding almost as many pax as some widebodies)? There many airports (including large ones) where widebodies use non-airbridge stands. There is an example in this video at 4m20sec.

It is an airline choice to an extent - Ryanair choose not to use air bridges for example.

However at Dublin there aren't enough gates with air bridges for everyone who wants to use them. The likes of Air Canada, WestJet, Hainan and Turkish clearly would prefer to use air bridges as they do at most other airports and at Dublin when available. Even airlines that always the 100/200 gates at Dublin like BA, SAS and Icelandair would almost certainly prefer to use air bridges at Dublin if there were actually enough of them.

Last two times I've flown to Dubai with Emirates from Dublin we've landed at a remote stand in Dubai, had to use the stairs and were bused to the terminal.

At least they've separate business class buses.

is there need for the pile on of repeat posts, the point has been made that plenty of airlines both in Dublin and other large airports don’t all use air bridges and the poster has been rightly corrected.

If I can add a different perspective to the love of the airport bus, I wouldn’t call it a non issue, it’s a big inconvenience and one i don’t like. If you play your cards right and get a seat at the front of the plane in the hope of a speedy exit it can be wasted if buses get involved. It takes ages to load the bus, bus likely has to drive a long distance, then you are all dumped at the same time into passport arrivals and you may gotten the short straw and 100 people manage to pass you out, knock on impact if you are hiring a car trying to make a train, trying to do x and y quickly. You lose control over the ability to exit the airport fast.

And the bus is uncomfortable, waiting to load, waiting for the driver, swaying, people on top of you, people taking up too much room, messing with seats, mini push to exit. How can posters say this is not an issue just so they can have either a pile on against a poster or a chance to “Willie wave” as a mod recently put it. Strange.

And that’s before you talk about the weather risk and potentially having to queue to get on the plane and in the process getting soaked and then the fun of sitting in wet clothes for a few hours flight after. Jet bridge please.

to emphasise my point, it’s 11oc at night and you have just landed on an aer Lingus plane, you are in row 5 (no check in) and tired after a long days work and the airport commute and have the drive to your house ahead of you, plane is taxing towards t2 in the rain and there are two scenarios

1. You dock at a the main terminal and get to use an air bridge, hop off and walk quickly to passport control and off home.
2. Or, Plane turns right to the crappy remote pier. It WILL take extra time and you have to endure the crappy bus experience (see my in above post outline the joys of the bus, it’s more than just a time inconvenience).
   

I can’t see anyone not being disappointed with the plane turning right.

Also, the airline won't want the cost of towing the aircraft to its departure gate for the first wave. So it's easier (and cheaper) for the operator to pre-position it on last arrival so it's ready for first departure, and walk/bus arriving passengers.

Inbound use the south gates all the time. Pax are bussed to the terminal! It’s not ideal but sure if that’s someone’s biggest gripe with a plane ride then things aren’t going too badly.

Yep straight off and onto a bus!

IAA are proposing a seat cap in their draft decision for winter 2024-25 of 14.4 million seats by slots