Not only T2. The congestion has spread to Pier B (300 gates) which is absolute chaos and bedlam and constant EI announcements looking for their missing pax:rolleyes:. BA have either been thrown out of there or have themselves opted to get away from the insanity and go to the peace and quiet of Pier A (200 Gates), although those EI announcements still filter through there as well.

Ah who cares about BA, they would be grand down with FR at D!, they don't care about where we go at LHR.

Would say they were booted out of B since EIR moved over from A and there is lots of room as a result.

AA OTp
 

AA have the worst performance by a long shot this summer daily delays of over one hour, missed connections , but have to agree re T2

One thing that greatly adds to the mess is the multiple daily dance of the queue poles, comical to see dozens of DAA Ek Ey poles being moved around in T2 ,

DAA should not allow airline branded poles at all if they have to be constantly
Moved and stored , very messy in an already busy Terminal, seen a few clipped ankles not to mention how little use half T2 check in area gets used, comical at times!!

daa estimating that 1.8 million T/A passengers will pass through the airport this year, the largest amount in its history. 2008 managed a peak of 1.748 million. 2014 could well see 2 million pax with extra YYZ, SFO and full year of AA's service to JFK.

Judging by the press release August total traffic was just short of 2.2 million passengers up on last year.

Latest News > Record Year For Transatlantic Traffic At Dublin Airport

Passenger numbers up 6% on last year, not bad at all... :D

Latest News > Almost 2.2 Million Passengers In August At Dublin Airport

August passengers up 8%.

Question
 

Does anyone know if the new EI flight to SFO will pre clear in Dublin?

Also does AA to JFK pre clear in Dublin?

Thanks in advance.

SFO will pre clear and AA pre clear. It's only the 2 or 3 EI flights that don't clear all other flights to the US clear.

Thanks
 

Thanks Jamie. Much appreciated

Word on the grapevine is the pre clearance is getting expanded, less of a bottleneck hopefully!

What's going on with all the delayed flights from Heathrow this evening, both British Airways flight I'm on and aer lingus flights are delayed. Looks like it will be a late one tonight.

Etihad are operating all B773 until 12 October due to very high cargo loads.

I was wondering that since the US Government is shutdown will the preclearance be affected?

Not affected and unlikely to be either.

After one winter season with EI, SAS and FR on DUB-Stockholm route, FR have cancelled the route for the coming winter season. Didn't see this one coming.

I see Maastricht has bit the dust too. Any others?

Almost 1.9 million passengers in September up 4%

Europe - Over 1 million up 2%
UK - 612,000 up 5%
Transatlantic - 197,000 up 10%
Middle East/North Africa 45,000 up 2%
Domestic - 7,000 up 20%

Year to date 15.6 million up 5%

Latest News > Passengers Numbers At Dublin Airport up 4% in September

FR have dropped Maastricht, Stockholm, Pisa but resumed Bremen and have increased freq on a number of routes.

Are a large amount of routes not coming back for Spring or is the full schedule not loaded? Tallinn, Oslo and Memmingem to name a few.

All flights from DUB to the US will be clearing this winter at DUB. EI have being pushing for this a long time, hopefully they will get the same result for the summer next year.

Travel Tax is being scrapped from 1 April 2014.

Irish Budget announcement today - Air tax will be reduced to zero from April 2014. Airlines told they are expected to develop new routes and increase frequency.

For years airlines moaned and groaned about the travel tax, will we now see all those new routes we were missing out on? I won't hold my breath!

I agree but it could save routes that are not doing well to.

Ryanair may expand services after axing of travel tax - Independent.ie

Extra staff for pre clearance and its to be expanded by 5,200 sq ft

US immigration boosts Dublin staff to process American fliers - Independent.ie

travel tax in Ireland
 

UK government please take note, it's time to follow suit.

Oh look! is that another flock of pigs flying overhead?

APD is far too much of a moneyspinner for UK Govt, unfortunately. Short term gain, instead of long term thinking.

And in the unlikely event they ever did scrap it, it would only be based on a date 5, 10yrs hence.

Flynonstop will not begin operations on Thursday from DUB, gone bust this morning.

According to MOL Ryanair hope to announce 700,000+ seats and new routes from DUB within the next two weeks.

Am writing this while flying Dublin to JFK on an Aer Lingus A330, wifi 19 euros btw

Any idea why we had two security checks at Dublin ? that's three times this morning I've had to take my shoes off, I'm not moaning just wondering why.

The first one is the standard one that all passengers leaving from Dublin undergo.

Then, you have to have a TSA compliant one before boarding the flight to America. When you go through pre-clearance, it's as though you're boarding at a US airport. In theory, you could connect onto another US internal flight after this without a check. In practice, the layout of US airports never seems to allow for this.

If landing in the USA from DUB and using pre-clearance and connecting to a domestic flight, it's treated as domestic to domestic (USA security also done at DUB). Most American airports are set up for just that, as most transfer traffic in the USA is domestic to domestic.

International to international transfers do not exist in the USA (who knows why!) hence the need to clear border control and customs, pick up bags, go upstairs (most of the time), check in, go through security, then back to the gate. If you're lucky, your bags may be checked through, but the same palaver has to be gone through. AFAIK it's always been so.

Miami allows for intl-intl transfers without the need to collect your bags and allowed to stay airside.

MAYBE they could get an A332 to be profitable on Dublin-Shanghai/Beijing, but it would be tight as I doubt they could fully load it on 2,600m runway. Nothing larger

My experience has been that you only get the benefit of having gone through the TSA scan if your flight leaves from the same terminal as your flight from Dublin arrives.

For example, the last time I flew into O'Hare, I had to go out into the public area, take the people mover between terminals and go back through security. IIRCI arrived in Terminal 5 and left from Terminal 3.

Bags may be transferred, but all passengers need to go through immigration, customs and security.

Do you know if the Ryanair route PMO-DUB will be confirmed for summer 2014?

Any rumours regarding Ryanair's expansion?

Apparently Thomas Cook are to start flights to Cancun next year.

No details of frequency yet but will likely be 1-2 weekly.

Almost 1.8 million passengers in October up 5%

Europe 930,000 up 2%
UK 642,000 up 5%
Transatlantic 160,000 up 13%
Middle East/Africa 43,000 up 11%
Domestic 6,000 up 19%

Year to date 17.3 million up 5%.

Latest News > 1.8 Million Passengers In October At Dublin Airport