Going Nowhere [Updated]

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This morning.

Via RTÉ news:

Asked why the airport did not have enough staff to deal with yesterday’s numbers, DAA’s Head of Communications Kevin Cullinane said the airport is operating on “very fine margins“, and is “running to the max” of available staffing levels.

Mr Cullinane added that there should be an additional 370 additional officers by the start of July.

“Yesterday morning when we opened security in terminal one and terminal two, we clearly didn’t have enough security lanes open due to resourcing challenges, and at the moment any absenteeism impacts on our ability to operate lanes,” he said.

The challenges the airport faced started at around 4.30am yesterday morning, he said, and grew worse as people joined various queues until eventually the system was just overwhelmed.

He said the airport did not become aware of the scale of the problem until “literally people report for duty at 3am and 4am” and when it became apparent, the airport did its best to open the optimum number of lanes.

‘Well over 1,000’ passengers missed flights due to queues, says airport operator (RTE)

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38 thoughts on “Going Nowhere [Updated]”

      1. GiggidyGoo

        Says he who was ‘incoming’ first. Hahahaha.
        Just type Charger Salmons into google search and knock yourself out.

        But but but – the embarrassment of blighters not being able to get into blightly stadium. Calls for some blighty karaoke.
        Maybe try Tooth Grindcore version of course – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJGYqFAzsHc – Behind Closed Doors.

        1. TenPin Terry

          Man, this is some internet meltdown
          this morning.
          I’ve just ordered in extra popcorn.
          You belt away Own Goal Onanist™

          1. GiggidyGoo

            Triggered Charger running out of come-backs. Oh the shame of it. Reduced to well used internet sayings as some sort of ‘win’. Meltdown is correct. If you can’t handle it, go back to bed.
            Don’t forget – popcorn is high in fibre, so a perfect accompaniment to the diarrhoea you come up with here. You obviously feed yourself on it.

          2. SOQ

            Can we lose this caricature BS please?

            I understand that it was part of the original brand but why would you now want to prevent yourself from being a real brand?

            You have been more Derry than Cork so far- don’t mess it up.

  4. TenPin Terry

    Dublin Airport PR man says we’ve no idea what caused the queues but today we’ve opened extra security lanes to cope with them.
    DOH !

    1. GiggidyGoo

      Not so Easyjet at Gatwick. What is it with english transport IT systems?
      https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/27/uk-airports-ports-and-roads-under-pressure-as-half-term-getaway-begins?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium

      ‘“We are very sorry for the late notice of some of these cancellations and inconvenience caused for customers booked on these flights however we believe this is necessary to provide reliable services over this busy period.’

      Ah hahahahaha.- Cancellations = reliable services?

      Only in blighty

      1. SOQ

        That happened to a friend of mine yesterday- 24 hours notice and couldn’t get through to the help lines of course. Crazy money for a last minute flight with another airline, and that was mainly full of other cancellations too.

        Thing is- some people were notified up to five days beforehand, so they couldn’t even synchronise the bloody text messages to all go out at the one time. Cancelations happen but the EasyJet administration appears to be appallingly bad.

    2. RuilleBuille

      Why an Irish unionist like yourself is so obsessed with the airport is baffling?

  5. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

    can you imagine stuck with a small child….
    who reimburses those flights etc, that shower should be made to, they’d soon pick up their game, as my auld wan says…
    if you can’t hear you must feel

  6. Ronan

    These people (DAA) are idiots.

    “We’re short staffed, so expect delays”
    => Worriers will come 6 hours early for their flight
    => Desks won’t be open
    => People with a 1300 flight in the queue ahead of people with a 1000 flight for terminal, bag drop and security, trying to get through ASAP
    => People with a 1000 flight get to bag drop at 0915 and are told they will likely miss their flight.
    => People who are missing their flight blame bag drop desk for delays and spend 10 minutes with the checkin desk attendant expecting them to rebook them
    => People with an 1100 flight get further delayed

    etc etc.

    The worst thing you can do to control queues, is to make a mess of the demand peaks by telling people to come early. Now you are chronically understaffed at the beginning of the day across the board, and you have people standing around waiting for checkin to open on their flights.

    The best thing you can do is to ramp up security to process people as quickly as possible.

    1. Mad

      Sadly this was all too readily apparent during the COVID flight period, no-one was flying, and still they could not organise a simple thing like an orderly queue seperated into people who had already checked in and those with bags, so all the people were crowded together spreading COVID to each other in the queue…

  7. Paulus

    As passengers stand around weary
    Their children both restless and teary.
    They’re far from content
    And for once they can’t vent
    their frustrations at Michael O’Leary

    1. The Dude

      Marvelous Paulus!

      Romantic Ireland is dead and gone,
      It’s with O’Leary on a plane.

  8. bell

    I’m sure rte camera crews will be rocking up to A&E departments to film the misery there.

    Then again……………….

  9. bell

    Government are appalled, so much so that they are sending a French Teacher in to solve the problem.

  10. jonjoker

    Those “very fine margins” will be even finer if all those people take DAA to court.

  12. ce

    I respectfully disagree withe minister – we could send the army in to shoot every second person and that should speed up things a bit, let’s think outside the box to get this done…

    1. ce

      Also, since The Plan/Great Reset says we’ll all be deported to death camps, succumb to VAIDS or similar maybe we just need a bit of patience and we won’t ever need to worry about this kind of thing anyway…

  13. Junkface

    Other EU cities managed to resupply their airport staff after the pandemic. Dublin airport has failed a basic management task. Why would any tourists visit Ireland this summer? Its a complete mess at the airport and a ripoff in the hotels and everywhere else. This is a tourism own goal.

    1. Ronan

      Don’t go down the ‘only in Oireland’ route on this one. All the major airports are experiencing issues.

      That aside, it’s a comedy of errors with the lay-offs, and a failure of government to protect the sector with interventions, presumably in all cases.

      I’ve actually met ex-DAA people in my last job, who joined us 100% remote. Some realised they were no worse off on 10-12K less money working from home for my ex employer, than they were between time and cost of going to the airport. They also moved to regular working hours. They will never go back.

      Work-life balance is becoming very important for people on low incomes. Where before they took 2 buses each way to a crappy job, they can now do a crappy job from home instead a few days a week.

      Who’d be a night porter in a hotel, or airport security at 4am, when you can be a back office administrator at home, 2-5 days per week, for not much less money, and now don’t need to run a car or work unsociable hours?

  14. SOQ

    DAA’s Head of Communications Kevin Cullinane said the airport is operating on “very fine margins“, and is “running to the max” of available staffing levels.

    If the airport is running to the max of available staffing levels then maybe increasing the available staffing levels might help? Just an idea.

    That soft of disingenuous slanting reminds me of back when the hospitals were saying all ICU beds were full- but it turned out that all ALLOCATED ICU beds were full and when challenged, they miraculously found more.

    So be this.

  15. gringo

    So the DAA are being threatened with having to meet Eamonn and Hilda every day until it’s sorted? A cruel and unusual punishment that will surely have the required effect.

    1. SOQ

      Yes Eamonn will start by asking tough questions on how they plan to reduce their carbon omissions and demand a schedule for the construction of a new bicycle route.

  16. Dave

    This is what happens when the DAA decided to to race to the he bottom in wages and conditions !!!

  17. Kin

    315 flights tomorrow arriving to Dublin airport
    25 flights arriving to cork airport tomorrow
    22 flights arriving to Shannon airport tomorrow
    Now anyone with the IQ of a five year old will come to the same conclusion
    Except eamon Ryan or Hilda knock on effect
    And of course mehole and of course simple Simon I want to sit on the security council coveney
    Time the number of flights were quartered from Dublin and the flights diverted
    It took me 15 minutes to come to that conclusion and even better it’s free advice
    It’s not rocket science
    No wonder a few days ago they were boxing each other in Dublin airport
    3.5 hours waiting for a one hour flight
    Snail mail was quicker

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