notably AA, are left waiting on mid-field taxiways for three quarters of an hour or so until, finally, they are accomodated and manage to slowly penetrate the defensive lines and reach their designated stands.
You'd think it happens daily, it happens a few times, when you turn up 2-3 hours late weekly what can you expect. This have gotten themselves together this year.
So far this year T/A OTP is doing rather well, congestion in terms or stands/passenger screening has being addressed well with flights departing on time. Big improvement on recent years. No big issues and we are in peak season with only UA 2 daily to come which will slot in fine and EI morning departure.
Not a lot can be done when the runway is at capacity at peak hours....give Natts a call and get them to take more traffic
On three recent trips my departing flights took 40-45 mins from push back to line-up. That's some waste of fuel.
Aer Lingus/Ryanair don't have any problem with such costs, when they didn't want to pay for a runway what do they expect. While not overly keen now the penny has started to drop.
Up until the last couple of weeks the Passport Control was a disgrace but (same digits crossed) it, too, has recently been properly staffed for rush hour arrivals.
You know that's not the daa's problem but they have been working on it!