It’s set to be the busiest weekend of the year so far. Passengers travelling through Dublin Airport this bank holiday weekend have been issued a warning about the large numbers planning to travel. According to the Dublin Airport Authority (daa), the airport is set to welcome around 472,000 passengers for the August bank holiday weekend. […]
1 year ago
By Katy Thornton The stop, drop, and roll days at the Terminal 1 set-down area could be coming to an end… After much deliberation, and a lot of controversy, Dublin Airport has been given the green light to charge motorists dropping off and collecting friends and family from the terminals. According to The Independent: “An Bord Pleanála has […]
2 years ago
Pure chaos. Irish holiday-goers could be in for even more hassle at Dublin Airport as there is now a risk daa will introduce a flight cap. The executive of the Dublin Airport Authority has said that they could introduce a flight cap if they are unable to cope with passenger numbers, limiting the number of […]
3 years ago
The airport is “ramping up” its operations. The Dublin Airport Authority (daa) has said that no passengers missed their flights due to long queues over the bank holiday weekend. On RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Ireland’s Minister of Sate at the Department of Transport Hildegarde Naughton repeated a claim made by the daa which signalled that the […]
3 years ago
Queue times at the airport varied on Saturday morning from 19 to 59 minutes. Dublin Airport has said passengers moved “smoothly” through the building on Saturday morning (3 June) despite a busy first wave of departures. This comes after over 1,000 people missed flights last Sunday due to large queues and organisational chaos at the […]
3 years ago
“By 6am this morning, queue times under 10 minutes were being experienced by early morning travellers in both terminal one and two.” The Dublin Airport Authority (daa) has said that departures are operating “very efficiently” this morning. As RTÉ reports, the maximum number of security lanes are open, extra staff are working and there is […]
3 years ago