passengers have now been caught right in the middle, and forced to pay for the incompetence of the DAA security shambles.
2 airlines have today confirmed that they are not refunding passengers who missed flights, while DAA say that the passengers must deal with the airlines after delays at security checks meant they missed their flights.
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At this stage, heads within DAA should roll, and be seen to do so.
For DAA to try and pretend that they were caught out, and that there are "no problems" at the airport is a total disgrace, and they are lying through their teeth. The problems at security have been known for months, and it is only that they have now been forced to correct the glaring errors in the whole system that things have now got the point of meltdown.
As to the effectiveness or otherwise of the security checks, that's a debate for another place and time, right now, what's needed is a management at DUB that is prepared to run an international airport, and if that means a few retail outlets, or even worse, some bar space has to be sacrificed in order to make the place work as an airport, which is what it is supposed to be, then that decision should be made for them by the government, at the same time as they remove the people that are directly responsible for this fiasco.
The soft easy option is no longer there. Hard urgent decisions that deal with the real issues are needed, yesterday.