T2 is architecturally very nice. But as an exercise in efficiency, logic and easily flowing people from point a (Check in) to point b (departure gate) it’s a mess. I suspect that there was little or no consultation with process engineers in its development. T1 wasn’t any better. The current ease of use is more to do with the low passenger volumes than good design.
Like so much is the Irish State area (politicians, government, civil service and semi-states), it’s all about optics; it gives the impression of knowing what it’s about, sometimes even looks promising but fundamentally fails to deliver on doing the basics properly.
I wonder what world leading airports were visited during the design process and what elements of any were seen as worth incorporating into the design. The check-in, go up two flights of stairs to queue at narrowest part of the building in order to get through the bottle neck of security screening and then down levels to the gates area is very impressive.
What's that phrase about organising a get together to a brewery?
JAS