Dublin Airport Authority CEO Dalton Philips arrives at Leinster House this afternoon to appear before the Oireachtas Transport Committee.
VIDEO: DAA chief exec Dalton Phillips: Only come 2.5hrs before a flight to UK/Europe, and 3.5hrs before long-haul. If the terminal is busy, “this week or into the future”, anyone coming earlier “may be asked to wait in a dedicated outside holding terminal”. @VirginMediaNews pic.twitter.com/Adf4237n0F
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) June 1, 2022
…but: “nobody could have expected this rebound”.
Phillips arguing that the airport’s recruitment would have been adequate to deal with the passenger numbers previously modelled (70% of 2019 levels), but not what has materialised
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) June 1, 2022
Um.
This afternoon.
Passengers that arrive too early for their flights will be asked to wait in a passenger holding area, with special consideration being given to those passengers who require special assistance and those Important Flyers travelling with autism.
For departing passengers, access to the appropriate terminals will be controlled and will require the presentation of documentation indicating the time of flight such as a booking confirmation or boarding card.
Daa said it will put in place bad weather cover, seating, and toilets in the holding area as quickly as possible in the coming days following trialling of the system over the June Bank Holiday Weekend.
The operator says following these incremental measures it is confident it has a robust plan and it does not envisage a repeat of what occurred last Sunday.
Daa predictions over post-Covid recovery ‘wildly wrong’ (RTE)
Earlier: Moving
Isn’t he off to Greencore now – finishing up in DAA?. He seems to have the anti-midas touch (Morrissons in the UK have experience of him)
while ceo at daa, he also had a role in a tech start up, a drone delivery company if I’m not mistaken. wonder why nobody has asked if this distracted him from what was going on at daa
Following the career path of the guy who moved from the Dublin Incinerator to Irish Water, perhaps?
So his big idea is to lock up his customers? Where do they find these muppets?
Idiots who arrive 6 hours early for their flight are part of the problem.
People make their own provision when they know the system is not working. They are not idiots.
Ye, bunch of clowns wanting to make their flights. They should just show up and miss it like you say daisy
Put your plastic penis away please
And why should they not arrive so early
This shows there is something really wrong about a airport with two terminals especially one at least a obscene amount of money unfit for purpose
Now people will have to form a line on the pavement
Get rid of DAA and shut it down
Meanwhile diverts all air traffic to the other 3 airports in Rural airport
The minister for transport eamon Ryan has to go
Usually from within the membership of political parties, gringo.
Who doesn’t enjoy a bit of kettling before jetting off on their hols?
In fairness tho who would have thought people, having been locked into their homes for two years would want to go on holidays… obviously not him. Must be using same modelling as that Prof guy from Maynooth…
And so many of these passengers moaning that they cannot survive with all the price increases
Feeding your family or heating one’s home
Let’s see ? Think we will go on a one in a life time well earned holiday for two weeks while we make up our minds
Then when we come back we can go shopping at the food bank
Great headline.
One for the scuba divers in the audience…
Ta, Micko!
…just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…
Holding pen….like the lairage facilities at Cherbourg for calf exports, except the calves will be rested, fed and watered for their onward trip.
One for the meat packers in the audience, Cobweb…
Was he asked about the general state of the airport like why it’s so dirty with so many things out of order? Anytime I’ve headed down to the Ryanair area at least one of those travelator things isn’t working.
The toilets don’t seem to be maintained at all.
Parts of Dublin Airport always seem to look like they’ve been entirely abandoned, in terms of basic maintenance, it’s a poster-boy for so many parts of the public sector, expensively mismanaged.
The guys in Greencore must be having seconds thoughts.
They will be asking him to do a “go-around” a few times before possibly aborting the landing!
AND leave his baggage behind
take out the slash and burn that happened because of C19 excuse…and this situation exposes the incompetence of those at Cx level at DAA…and actually a broader view of what Ireland sees as acceptable “quality jobs”? yeah working for some subbed construct you’d be on the road to getting the keys to one of those many thousands of new dark apartments popping up around the city in no time atall lol
my eldest lad went for one of the security positions advertised a while back
and he got past the initial phases, lined up for interview but it emerged that the pay and conditions on offer were outsourced zero hour utter pants, less than floor staff under him get in the bar he works in town
who’d want to take up any of the positions as offered?
this is what you get taking the yellowpack race to the bottom route for important services jobs like these
there was a time when security at the airport was a coveted job to have a la prison officer, now it’s low grade part timer flaky stuff
what the fupp do the DAA and official Ireland expect exactly?
indeed, they can well afford to increase pay and offer long term contracts for these key roles and still make a return to the exchequer.
short term penny pinching mindset still prevalent in daa’s C suite
Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
You can apply this across many, many, many sectors in Ireland these days.
What %-age of jobs are dead-ends in 2022?
Certainly a lot higher than 15-20 years ago.
The p*ss is being ripped out of the majority of people.
Next election is gonna be interesting…
Today I watched an entry level job go to a candidate for 55K and a management job with two reports go to someone for 100K salary. Unbelievable reward for no experience.