Quote: "Schiphol mixes all non-Schengen passengers together, so all get searched again. In theory, if Irish passengers were kept separate, only passport control would be required. Don't know if there's anywhere that does that though. Frankfurt and Paris are the same."

At AMS arriving/departing pax are not segregated, departing pax have to pass border control (like most places, a pointless exercise), and security is at the gate.

So everyone gets screened there, whether "schengen" or not, whether in transit or not.

The downsides: (1) pax are stuck in small gaterooms, and (2) pax cannot buy water for the flight (not a problem on a short hop such as AMS-LHR).

It's the same at SIN.

Apart from that, both are excellent airports.

Europort Exprress to start Dublin-Rotterdam from 17 September. Flights go on sale from 11 June.

Europort Express - connecting you to Europort

A fool and their money are soon parted. Why does aviation attract such talent?

@Fairdealfrank People making a Schengen-Schengen connection in Amsterdam are not rescreened. Piers B and C plus the upstairs part of pier D there don't rescreen at the gate.

If you connect Non-Schengen to Schengen, there is a single security point at the boundary between piers C and D.

Travelling to a non-Schengen country means rescreening at the gate.

In theory, there could be a separate area for EU (non-Schengen), but there's a practical limit to how much you could break up the airport. The only realistic option is the downstairs part of pier D, but that's also used for flights to Russia, Turkey, Morrocco etc. There not enough volume from the UK and Ireland to justify reserving all that space.

bmi lhr late route
 

I've noticed that bmi are currently running a 2150 lhr-dub service- convenient for night owls and cheaper than EI but not running every night it seems- anyone know the load factors/a.c type?

"We are to operate a strict "Same route, same date, same fare" policy. Whether you book three months or three days in advance, you can always expect to pay the same set fare for the date of travel. We won't penalise you for peak or seasonal travel. On boarding any of our flights, you will be presented with your own fabric bag containing food and drink you chose at time of booking for no extra cost. You can even take the bag home with you as a memory of your experience with Europort Express."

Somehow, I can't see this crowd lasting long...

More chance of virginn galactic using t2 for flights to mars i think on this one!!!

Air Asia X have said a route from Dublin-Kuala Lumpur is planned once the A350's entre service in 2016 according to the airlines CEO.

Quote: "@Fairdealfrank People making a Schengen-Schengen connection in Amsterdam are not rescreened. Piers B and C plus the upstairs part of pier D there don't rescreen at the gate.

If you connect Non-Schengen to Schengen, there is a single security point at the boundary between piers C and D.

Travelling to a non-Schengen country means rescreening at the gate.

In theory, there could be a separate area for EU (non-Schengen), but there's a practical limit to how much you could break up the airport. The only realistic option is the downstairs part of pier D, but that's also used for flights to Russia, Turkey, Morrocco etc. There not enough volume from the UK and Ireland to justify reserving all that space."

Thanks for the info about schenghen, 840. Am certainly not suggesting that UK/Ireland pax should have a separate section of pier D lower! Was just expressing a preference, in general, for single screening areas for pax from landside and pax from flight connections!

To return to the thread subject, what are the arrangements in the new DUB-2? Haven't been through it yet.


Quote: "Air Asia X have said a route from Dublin-Kuala Lumpur is planned once the A350's entre service in 2016 according to the airlines CEO."

Good to see increasing long haul possibilities at DUB, despite the length of 10/28.

Any Airline CEO who is telling you what they will do in 4 years time is blowing smoke.....................most are just happy to know what they are doing next year and hoping they still in business. Great to hear long time blue sky ideas but that is all they are.

Its mostly an A320 with the odd A319 night stopping.

Today's flight from/to DXB was operated by A6-EGQ (B777-300ER) which was delivered on 17th May from PAE to DXB. It was the first commercial flight for this a/c.

Thomson
 

Thomson resuming their summer charters within the next week (Heraklion, Zakynthos, Sharm El Sheikh, Corfu etc)

I have seen it all now:

Safety fears could result in airport ban for fans - National News - Independent.ie

It beggers belief.

In regard to the indo article about banning Jedward fans from the airport:

This statement reads to me as an admission that DAA cannot handle the event.

properly organised, a press conference in Dublin Airport could be used as a positive bit of PR for DUB after the recent negative press.

To be fair having Jedward leave Ireland is worthy of a huge crowd at the airport..............then they go and disappoint by returning:E

This is no more than a PR bit to explain why there will be no jedward fans at the airport!

Jedward fans should indeed be banned form the airport, having seen first hand what they are like.
imagine hundreds of teenage girls camping out in the middle of T1 departures completely blocking the place and disrupting queues while chanting "We will, we will not be moved" ..... you get the idea.