DUBLIN
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Dublin
Posts: 987
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Surely there is more than one lounge in T2?
We had discussions here about new entrants which was nice to ponder yet when you consider how fragmented existing ones seem to have become one has to ask themselves is there any hope. Star Alliance attraction is that they adapt airports so that they house all their member airlines in one terminal, under one roof. What's gone wrong? Is there any one there with long or short term vision and planning that will actually benefit DUB?
We had discussions here about new entrants which was nice to ponder yet when you consider how fragmented existing ones seem to have become one has to ask themselves is there any hope. Star Alliance attraction is that they adapt airports so that they house all their member airlines in one terminal, under one roof. What's gone wrong? Is there any one there with long or short term vision and planning that will actually benefit DUB?
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Dublin
Posts: 2,348
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
October Bank Hoilday Weekend
Over 220.000 passengers to use Dublin airport between today and Monday. Compared to over 250,000 passengers in October 2009.
It's a sharp drop on 2009
It's a sharp drop on 2009
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Ireland
Posts: 99
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
A project such as T2 should properly be designed to last for 30 years or more. If it were full "anytime soon" or even in the next 10 years, then it would be a failure and the designers and planners would rightly be condemned for their lack of foresight. I think we should be pleased to see it operating at less than design capacity for some time. It is easy to forget that T1 has been operating above its design capacity for most of the past 15 years and even the current reduced traffic is still greater than that which it was intended to accommodate. Short term thinking and a lack of foresight have been the bane of public policy in Ireland for years. The original plans for the M50 were condemned as unnecessarily extravagant and its capacity was reduced accordingly. As soon as it opened it was "full". This did not make it a success.
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: dublin
Age: 56
Posts: 377
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I hope it is never full!!! That wud be sign of yet again bad planning!! Well used now that wud do me but even that in the longrun may take a very very long time to happen.
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Ireland
Posts: 99
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Sorry, I knew exactly what you meant and my comment was not directed at you but to those who criticise everything and who are already winding themselves up to condemn T2 as soon as it opens. We don't have to look too far so see some examples of this perpetual knocking syndrome.
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: dublin
Age: 56
Posts: 377
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
No we dont MOL for example, I will only be too glad to be working the b-pier etc now that EI moving or to put it another way, the butter has a lot more bread to be spread over now so should ease things up a lot Ground ATC mind you have a lot more work as they cant see the far side off the D pier or the E-pier but its all nice an new and look forward to seeing what other carriers comes to join us happy workers in Dublin
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Dublin
Posts: 2,348
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Blue Air flights to Bucharest Baneasa now bookable for summer 2011. Operate S, M, W & F
S, M, F - dep DUB at 01:30 and arrive DUB at 00:45
W - depart DUB at 10:00 and arrive DUB at 09:15
S, M, F - dep DUB at 01:30 and arrive DUB at 00:45
W - depart DUB at 10:00 and arrive DUB at 09:15