Fees are less than €8, with substantial discounts at the moment for all airports to boost recovery. Even if you scrapped fees entirely, the people still have to want to fly from or to the airport / region in question.
I wasn't specifically talking about Shannon, but scrapping fees for airlines would only be a part of the overall strategy.....getting more carriers into regional airports would take more incentives from central Government.
Looking at the same dates I priced for Shannon, Cork also works out cheaper than Dublin-London. I just don't see much value in that kind of investment when there are so may other areas that need attention and there's not a huge amount that can be done within the constraints of state aid rules.
For the majority of the population, Dublin is the local airport, and even if you people living in Ireland don't tend to spend a lot in the vicinity of the airport.
In one of those bassinets that they normally stick babies in?
Lots of flights in the US cancelled over their bank holiday weekend.
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Ireland's population is heavily weighted in and around Dublin, for the majority of the population, Dublin is the local airport.
I've been there for a couple of sell-out games and it was always very smooth getting in. Saw one BBC reporter questioning how they'd be able to cope with the Rugby World Cup next year who was obviously unaware they hosted it there without any issues in '07.No No No - it was pure happenstance that all the empty seats were in the Liverpool end whilst there were no empty seats in the Real Madrid end.
The only problem with that approach is you incentivise people to show up late and punish those who show up in good time.
How many were rostered? The 17 not trained are the responsibility of management to 20 others need to find a new job.Details from RTE on a new triaging system and staff absences...
The operators say at times when the terminals get particularly busy, they will be triaging access to the terminals and only allowing departing passengers into the departures level that have flights departing within two-and-a-half hours to short-haul destinations and three-and-a-half for long-haul destinations. Passengers that arrive too early for their flights will be asked to wait in a passenger holding area...
The airport was down 37 security officers. Of these, 17 were new recruits which the airport had hoped would have completed training to allow them to work on Sunday. Another twenty officers were absent. The impact of this, was that the airport could not open six security lanes, three in each terminal. This led to a processing deficit of 1,200 passengers an hour.
Passengers may be left outside in rain, airport admits
Chief Executive of the daa Dalton Philips said he is "deeply embarrassed" by what happened at Dublin Airport last weekend and he apologised "unreservedly" to passengers and staff affected.www.rte.ie
I didn't suggest a time, the airlines all have various advice on that. My point was just that if they openly implement a system where those who arrive later than others are allowed to skip the queues, it only incentivises everyone to arrive late. You'd be a fool to arrive at or before the advised check-in times if you're just going to stand in a queue watching people arriving after you stream past.
Why would you arrive an hour earlier than you had to? Arrive as late as possible and just walk straight past the queue.