And Shannon

Stop making sense will ye..

Because that would take brains!

Maby worked in H,S,E before getting that job.....

I wouldnt recommend contacting the Daa for compensation as you simple wouldnt get what your owed and compensation. I'd get a solicitor and sue them in court for all costs, your flight, holiday or hotel loss, transport, food bills, stress and anxiety, failure to completely there contract with you as your airlines paid them a fee from your ticket for you to use the airport. Absolutely everything.

@@nirish25 ,they don't do their jobs as they should! No excuses for such a discrase! Very disrespectful! Other countries are more organised....

@@godessunivers6941 What planet are you on. Amsterdam has told the airlines to cancel 20% of their flights. Charled de Gaule was in mayhem on Saturday. A person I know landed at 9.30am and it took most of the day to get out of the airport. CDeG was worse than Dublin for the return flight. Airports in Britain are in mayhem. There is a video of the pilots of one flight loading the baggage in to the plane due to the lack of baggage handlers.

@@frankryan3294 😂😂😂I'm on the same planet as you🤣 But seriously , no need for justifications. People should do their jobs, no excuses, period!!!

@@godessunivers6941 Just after seeing a news article about long queues in Stockholm airport. Again the cause is a shortage of security staff. Stockholm estimates that there will be long queues until the end of the summer. People are doing their jobs in very difficult circumstances.

Unfortunately it's not just a wage issue. Since Covid it seems that people don't want to work in jobs that have early mornings or late evenings. They all want jobs that will allow them work at home. Look at how many have left the pub and restraunt trade. Look for a taxi outside the airport. There was an article in the Guardian newspaper a couple of weeks ago about security work in Stanstead Airport. Interesting read. The money was only a small part of why people were leaving. The biggest issues were the anti social hours and the work itself- standing most of the time or either looking into x-ray machines and continually dealing complaining people who have issues with everything. These queues are not unique to Dublin. I spoke to someone who flew from Dublin to Charles De Gaulle on Saturday. It took from 9.30 to well into the afternoon to get out of CdeG. For the return flight the airports in Paris were in mayhem- worse than Dublin. I can only imagine what it's going to be like in places like Spain over the summer months

What do you then when large increases in passenger numbers stretches their security staff and you can't get extra people to do the security jobs.

Who gave a child with stubble a job. Why is he answering the questions. Early presentation!!!!!°° Now he blames the passengers.....No seats, chairs, benches to sit down. If some one needed to go to the toilet, take medication, bad back, couldn't stand.....we made a decision as an airport!!°°°°°!!!!! To get someone with a yellow visor to walk around call out with a blower anyone for flight 435 to Heathrow leaving at 4 o' clock go to gate 43 now leave the queue.......Simple

Article in the Guardian newspaper a couple of weeks ago about why people don't want to work in airport security in Stanstead - anti social hours, constantly standing, stress from constantly dealing with the public (which I know from experience can be trying). People have left to go to other jobs with less money but better hours, less stress etc. You can replicate that article for any major airport now. Most employers especially those in hospitality are finding it extremely difficult to get staff at the moment.

Apparently 17 security staff did not report in for duty on Saturday.

@John Brennan I don't know the internal workings of the security in Dublin Airport. I'm simply stating what was reported. Maybe the stand by crew did eventually show in. I would assume that it would take some time to contact them and to show in. According to one of the travel experts - when you lose staff early in the day and queues start developing its very hard to recover. By all accounts the airport is running very well this morning with reports of queue times being normal.

@John Brennan Quite possibly. I was just thinking 17 people absent would the equivalent of closing possibly 3 - 4 security lanes. It also seems 17 is a very high percentage of sick absences out of rostered staff of 100+

That option is already open to them. They are not interested. Aer Lingus laid off all their ground staff and cabin crew in Shannon.

because its Ireland. ah sure it'll be grand

I flew out of Dublin Airport late last year. Less than 30 minutes from the Red car park to check in and through security.

Change your meds

He’s right. It’s an absolute kip of an airport. Nobody cares about what they are doing or the passengers. Clearly evident from the top down over the past few days.