Dublin Airport New Runway/Infrastructure.

Been a while since I used DUB T1 outbound but I’ll become reacquainted as of tomorrow afternoon and report back. Be definately arriving good and early.

trellheim wrote: »

And it works brilliantly with less belts and more people than Dublin . All that time saved is spent browsing shopping and eating, I really dont know why the DUB airside businesses dont give out as well as its all time lost that they would be buying stuff airside

In fairness, I imagine they do give out. The medium/long term plan is to move screening to a new area on Mezzanine level in t1, most likely to vastly improve the current setup which is limited by space (I'm not talking about number of lanes, I believe the length of packing/unpacking areas is a big issue).

Stephen Strange wrote: »

In fairness, I imagine they do give out. The medium/long term plan is to move screening to a new area on Mezzanine level in t1, most likely to vastly improve the current setup which is limited by space (I'm not talking about number of lanes, I believe the length of packing/unpacking areas is a big issue).

I dont see packing and unpacking areas slowing things down as long as the belts are fed with bags and people are processing through ; I like watching these things because theres nothing else to do while queueing .

When you are unpacking theres 3 other slots doing the same and nearly always the limiting factor is being able to push your tray forwards while the conveyor is full - the thing holding that up being the belt/scanning speed and not the size of the area ( if there was more unpacking slots the conveyor would become even more congested, slowing things even more )

At the other end the bags fall down to the ramp and they dont slow people or other bags going through the scanner.

Take all that together and the speed of people going through is not really to do with packing and unpacking areas. I suspect DAA are once again trying to avoid the hard yards and actually spend that money on needed staff


Complain to the shift managers as you go through folks ask them why they dont recruit enough people to staff all the belts at peak its not as if they dont have the money to pay them

https://m.independent.ie/business/irish/mcevaddy-looks-to-woo-iag-and-delta-for-new-transatlantic-hub-37726794.html

I just read that. An infinitetely better option than daa in my opinion! There is actual vision here!

L1011 wrote: »

And it is NEVER going to happen. There is no way to force access to the runways, and it won't be offered freely.

The IAA control the runways and ATC, if they allow access DAA can’t say no.

Really, it's the government who has the final say. But, you have to wonder about that article, when Willie Walsh is saying we don't need a third terminal

If anyone here believes the DAA could stop this they are being naive. Politics will decide this one way or another.

If would be the government who would have any final say.

Podge_irl wrote: »

A carrier with sufficient landing slots and terminal space is presumably not necessarily the best to judge whether more terminal capacity is needed I would imagine?

That being said, I neither see what benefit a competing private terminal would bring nor have any reason to doubt the DAA's view that it is not yet needed.

theyd push a lot more for new business than the DAA I reckon!

Idbatterim wrote: »

theyd push a lot more for new business than the DAA I reckon!

You've clearly got a chip on your shoulder. DUB has had unprecedented growth in the past few years with dozens of new routes and destinations and DAA recently announced a €1 billion investment on top of the €320 million being spent right now on the runway and control tower. What's that if not ambitious?

not long after that recession and T2 already not enough stands! Drive into Dublin airport and you are greeted with multiple traffic lights! look at some of the security queues , some people waited 55 minutes last year and at the same time, many of the security screening booths are closed, they were fined for it there not so long ago. So excuse my cynicism when it comes to the DAA!

What is the bloody obsession here with the lights? Malaga doesnt have them, McCarran doesnt have them! Two of the more recent airports I have used, is this just an Irish / English love affair with traffic lights?

Podge_irl wrote: »

A carrier with sufficient landing slots and terminal space is presumably not necessarily the best to judge whether more terminal capacity is needed I would imagine?

The point is that the head of Aer Lingus is quoted as saying another terminal is not needed in that Irish Times article.

Seems to directly contradict what the Indo are pushing as a narrative, which proposes that:

McEvaddy met IAG boss Willie Walsh and former Aer Lingus chief executive Stephen Kavanagh and discussed the possibility of either British Airways or Aer Lingus - or both - becoming the anchor tenant at the terminal, according to well-placed industry sources.

Indo seem to be inventing their own spin on this story, when the reality is that McEvaddy had a meeting where Walsh very likely told him the same thing as he told the Irish Times!

This is a common trend among modern newspapers - take a bunch of disconnected minor facts, then weave your own little slant on what it all means. Generate some clicks. Done. Who cares if it's accurate?

Carawaystick wrote: »

There was a jib crane taking down the tower crane at the new tower on Saturday. When is the tower switchover expected to happen?

2021 I believe. It has to go through 2 years of testing before opening.

MJohnston wrote: »

Seems to directly contradict what the Indo are pushing as a narrative, which proposes that:



Indo seem to be inventing their own spin on this story, when the reality is that McEvaddy had a meeting where Walsh very likely told him the same thing as he told the Irish Times!

I don't see why the Indo would push this as a narrative. Seems more likely that someone else is pushing it. It all sounds a bit desperate if you ask me.