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The airport's management is insisting it is “confident” that passengers will not miss their flights ahead of Ireland's long weekend. | UTV News.

An extra hour is needed if they are checking in a bag. Earlier this week, the UK government blamed airlines for failing to prepare enough staff to manage the summer flight rush, as hundreds of journeys were cancelled and huge queues caused passengers to miss flights across the UK. But Dublin Airport officials have said they are “confident” that passengers will not miss flights this weekend if they arrive at the airport at the recommended time. Some travelling were told they could miss flights due to the extent of the queues, with 50,000 passengers expected to pass through the airport on Sunday. Dublin Airport had earlier warned of “significant queues” for passengers at the country’s main airport. Holidaymakers have captured footage of long queues forming at Dublin Airport as Ireland prepares for the long weekend getaways, following a week of widespread flight disruption.

MORE than 300 flights are scheduled to leave Dublin Airport tomorrow morning as the bank holiday exodus begins.

We arrived a half hour earlier than the two and a half hours as well just in case,” said Antoinette. "If you are checking in a bag, please allow up to an hour of additional time. These covered areas will be in place and available to provide shelter for passengers from the early hours of tomorrow (Friday) morning,” the DAA said. After that, there are at least 20 flights per hour scheduled to leave. Even when we arrived we were still nervous but I think we can relax now.” “Why weren’t they this organised last weekend? We booked the holiday last September and we were worried when we saw they queues last week, but gave ourselves three and a half hours as advised. Ryanair had sent us a text saying our bags could be dropped after 7am, so there was no point coming too early,” said Amanda, from Dun Laoghaire. Passenger drop-off has moved to our Atrium Road. Departing passengers can enter via our Atrium (red circle in image). This change will remain in place for the coming weeks. (1/4) 🧵 pic.twitter.com/RAM2uxcDX9 June 2, 2022 “That’s a result of the increased staff we’ve deployed for this weekend and the extra security lanes at which we were at maximum this morning for those departing flights from 6am this morning. There was similar efficiency at the bag-drop areas, with people saying it took half an hour to drop bags in Terminal One, and up to an hour at one point in Terminal 2.

Airport operator daa has said this morning's departures at Dublin Airport are running "very efficiently" at what is the start of a busy bank holiday weekend ...

"Today is the start of a very busy bank holiday weekend of air travel with up to 50,000 passengers a day departing from Dublin Airport." The daa said its first wave of departures "has run very efficiently this morning as a result of extra staff, the maximum number of security lanes open and an improvement in queue management for passengers entering the terminals for check-in, bag drop and security." Airport operator daa has said this morning's departures at Dublin Airport are running "very efficiently" at what is the start of a busy bank holiday weekend of air travel.

Dalton Philips, chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA), told the Oireachtas Transport Committee on Wednesday that these delays happened due to a ...

But the implementation of that plan will be key.” People are paid to do services. “If we need, at really busy times, to segment people into holding zones, we will do that. An extra hour is needed if they are checking in a bag. And if it doesn’t, then we’ll have to take further measures. “We’re very, very confident in the operation that we’ve got in place for this weekend that we’re going to get everyone through and that there will be no missed flights.”

Kevin Cullinane said it took most passengers between 30 and 45 minutes to pass through security so far this morning.

50,000 passengers are expected to pass through Dublin Airport every day over the weekend. That’s a result of the increased staff we’ve deployed for this weekend,” he said. Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you

Dalton Philips said while 200 extra security officers have been recruited to date, they still need to hire another hundred. “We are in a very delicate situation ...

A new drop off area has been created in front of the Atrium building — which links the coach and bus park to Terminal 1. This has created space for a marquee which will be used to protect passengers from the rain, should queues need to extend outside the terminal building. Inside the terminal building there was an air of relative calm with the only queues at the bag drop areas for airlines including Air Canada, British Airways and Aer France. The next peak is between 1pm and 2pm when 21 flights will take off, followed by the an evening peak of 25 flights taking off between 7pm and 8pm. Speaking in Dublin at the annual congress of Alde, Fianna Fáil’s political grouping in Europe, Mr Martin stopped short of saying there should be consequences for the management of the airport’s operator DAA if there is a repeat of the delays for passengers. We are in a very tight situation,” Mr Philips told RTÉ's News at One.

The DAA has hired 200 extra security officers to date they still need to hire another hundred.

It is a very busy day and it is going to be a very busy weekend." We had a build up between 3.30am and 4.30am which was the busiest period. "It is a very busy day. Rebounding at a rate that none of us anticipated." We are in a very delicate situation because when you are down the required numbers of officers you need like last weekend you can have a very rapid build up of queues. But the queues were moving fast and by 630am it was down to less than ten minutes.

Passengers have described queues at Dublin Airport as 'quick and painless' as the DAA security is taking less than 10 minutes, with more than 300 flights ...

We arrived a half hour earlier than the two and a half hours as well just in case,” said Antoinette. "If you are checking in a bag, please allow up to an hour of additional time. These covered areas will be in place and available to provide shelter for passengers from the early hours of tomorrow (Friday) morning,” the DAA said. After that, there are at least 20 flights per hour scheduled to leave. Even when we arrived we were still nervous but I think we can relax now.” “Why weren’t they this organised last weekend? We booked the holiday last September and we were worried when we saw they queues last week, but gave ourselves three and a half hours as advised. Ryanair had sent us a text saying our bags could be dropped after 7am, so there was no point coming too early,” said Amanda, from Dun Laoghaire. Passenger drop-off has moved to our Atrium Road. Departing passengers can enter via our Atrium (red circle in image). This change will remain in place for the coming weeks. (1/4) 🧵 pic.twitter.com/RAM2uxcDX9 June 2, 2022 “That’s a result of the increased staff we’ve deployed for this weekend and the extra security lanes at which we were at maximum this morning for those departing flights from 6am this morning. There was similar efficiency at the bag-drop areas, with people saying it took half an hour to drop bags in Terminal One, and up to an hour at one point in Terminal 2.

Dave Given said he and his wife almost missed their flight due to the length of the queues at the airport.

"By six o’clock this morning queue times under 10 minutes were being experienced by early morning travellers in both terminal one and two. A DAA spokesperson said: "Anyone travelling through Dublin Airport in need of assistance can contact our partner OCS who provides a full assistance service for those with reduced mobility. "From there we went to security at around 4.40am, where there were even more large queues. Dublin Airport is committed to helping those passengers who may require further assistance on our campus. "The first early morning wave of departures has run very efficiently at Dublin Airport this morning as a result of extra staff, the maximum number of security lanes open and an improvement in queue management for passengers entering the terminals for check-in, bag drop and security. Speaking to Belfast Live, Dave said that he went to the airport the night before on the 10.30pm bus from Belfast and set an alarm to wake up at 2.30am in order to get prepared to go through security.

Emergency measures introduced at Dublin Airport since the chaos of last weekend and into the week have helped avoid any repeat during the start of the June ...

Between 6am and 8am, a total of 65 flights will take off. Over the course of today’s departure operations, a total of 294 flights will take-off – 178 from Terminal 1 and 116 from Terminal 2. Between the 6am and 7am peak, a total of 36 flights will depart Dublin – 19 from Terminal 1 and 17 from Terminal 2.