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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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