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EVER FEEL THAT your choice of political party is like choosing between four boyband members you hate equally?
That’s the message from the UK’s Green Party who’ve released a campaign video mocking their rival party leaders.
Messers Cameron, Miliband, Clegg and Farage are shown singing from the same ballad sheet in the video complete with key changes and dance routines.
It’s so ridiculous it works.
It’s got people talking too. Job done.
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Dynamic pricing model aka opportunistic price gouging
@Graham Fahey: how do you think the cost of your plane ticket is determined?
@Urban Living Dublin: People understand basic economics of supply and demand, but this is simply gouging from a semi-state body.
@Urban Living Dublin: yer point is valid but Graham is totally right with his comment. The people are getting rode by the Daa, have been and always will be it’s not rocket science.
@Paul Gorry: The drop off charges coming in are a disgrace too.
@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: just another kick in the teeth by the Daa ciaran absolutely. How they can be defended is staggering.
@Urban Living Dublin: price of a plane ticket is also heavily determined by what competitors are charging. Dublin airport has a monopoly and can charge what they want because there is no other competitors.
@matthew mc manus: well that’s a lie. Dublin Airport is a regulated airport…their prices are set by someone else
@Urban Living Dublin: ticket costs are based on a range of factors, cost of fuel, cost of parts, staffing demands, landing charges…basically any cost associated with keeping an aircraft in the air. How much do you think it costs to run a massive concrete field with automated barriers and online booking.
@Urban Living Dublin: ridiculous analogy
@Jason Ebbs: you will find that the dominant factor determining ticket price is demand and supply. No different for the parking.
The one-time Chairman of Aer Rianta, Noel Hanlon, foresaw this many moons ago and warned against it. Not just the parking, obviously, but the ills of the whole commercialisation of the old Semi-State model to operate the Airports. Turns out he was bang on. The DAA should be dissolved and the Board and Management Team dismissed. The Dept of Transport should then appoint administrators to run the operations under their clear instructions until a new State entity can be legislated for, with a not-for-profit remit, to run all the Airports in the Country, with passenger services as its No. 1 priority.
@Eoin Roche:
Don’t understand why have different prices on different dates to ‘manage’ supply of spaces. Surely have one price and if booked out so be it. Otherwise it is just plain profiteering and greed.
@iohanx: Its wrong but its also panic stations my management because their business lost hundreds of millions over the past two years. Same panic stations that cause them to run a lean security operation which backfired massively. Now new hires are on terrible contracts too while inflation is rocketing which will also backfire on them. Cant imagine staff retention will be great…… They should be on course to make close to 100m profit thus year if traffic levels keep up. They only seem to be focused on the current balance sheet as opposed to long term planning and knock on effects of the cost saving measures. Reputation damaged massively
It’s profiteering. Why would fees fluctuate depending on time of year and demand? The service is the same irrespective. My local car park’s fees don’t fluctuate, on the road parking meter fees don’t fluctuate. Call it what it is, ripping people off because they know that they have a captive customer base for the most part. DAA board needs a good kicking. We’re subsidising their wages after all.
Pure greed
Dynamic pricing is not about managing demand so that all those needing parking can do so. It’s about pricing out those on lower incomes so that all wealthier people can get parking. Any price led demand control is only about that as it only works by excluding the less well off. Journalists should call out McQueen on this instead of just reporting his nonsense verbatim.
@Tony Murray: exactly, the same as congestion charges, get the little man out of the way.
Daa are a lying greedy shower of….. Glad the public are finally seeing what the staff have known for years.
no no no. “dynamic pricing” is their excuse for ripping people off? and we’re supposed to swallow that?
Everywhere n everything is putting prices up sure who cares we will just take it as it comes government loves it more tax were Is the fighting irish bring on the election ops that’s 4 yrs away
@noel c: the same government that reduced duty on fuels and gave home power supply credits?
@Paul Furey: you need to look at the price of a barrel of oil in 08 and pump price and look at todays prices and see its price gouging by Government
@Paul Furey: Hi Paul, you think the Government have done enough then yes? My local station are charging 220.9 for petrol and my energy supplier now charge 55c a kWh compared to a few months ago when it was 27c. I make a good wage and I’m seriously struggling so the Government can actually do one.
@Paul Furey: Yep Paul the same government that offered the Irish people a token gesture, and now gone running to the hills.
@Paul Furey: the same government that can write any extortionate price like this as expenses and paid for by us plebs
Anyone who is in business and has no opposition can charge what they like.
Went to book red car park 10 days in july €170 last year it was €80, €90 jump this year , was booking 2 cars in €340 2 families , ended up getting a 11 seat taxi €200 return ,
September 2021 I paid €118 for 10 days in short term, this year it’s €273.90 and long term is €150!! Absolute greed
They need to up their game
@Irishman1: That’s a massive understatement.
@Irishman1: they prefer to up their prices….everywhere!
Stayed in the Clarion parking last year, €67 for 2 weeks. This year it’s €212.
Won’t be using it again. Left a one star review.
Price gouging in my opinion.
@Alan Leahy: *Clayton
Stop moaning about the cost of things and get out and march! 18 June at 1pm Parnell St
Unfortunately they have a captive market as there’s eff all way of getting there except by car. Must be the only international airport in the civilized world with virtually zero public transport links. Welcome to Ireland.
Big pay rises coming for the big boys and girls in this company all connected to profit, the plebs using this facility don’t really figure in all this
‘Dynamic pricing’
Lol.
Hilarious.
DAA taking advantage of quick park exit, simple as,
Sadly cheaper and more time efficient to get taxis to and from the airport south of the toll bridge, quick park has been closed since the start of covid not after it. Hope DAA oppose the upcoming planning permission for the quick park site…won’t be holding my breath.
There should be a CPO placed on the former Quickpark site as a National priority seeing it is now unused. Then go out to tender for its operation under new management. Why are we allowing this facility lie idle and thus pushing up the price of long term parking elsewhere.? I would think that there will never be planning permission given for any other use than that of airport parking.
A week in the red carpark in March was €80 its now €160. Shameful.
Booked 2 weeks in Red Car Park end of April 110…..2 weeks mid August 180..
Nobody give a flying f.. k as to what anybody can charge for anything in Ireland
So people have no problem buying a ticket for a flight, the cost of which is entirely determined by dynamic pricing. But for parking their car, dynamic pricing is suddenly a massive problem?
@Urban Living Dublin: Give up with yer jip. People know what’s really going on, no matter what ye say.
@Urban Living Dublin: this is obvs someone working at the DAA
@Urban Living Dublin: correct, but I have a choice of airlines, destinations and even departure points. Airlines may even justify their price fluctuations because of their dependence on fuel, aircraft leasing fees, airport slots etc. How are the DAA justifying the fluctuation for the rental of a 50 sq ft piece of gravel? They’ve made a statement that they have a price fluctuating model. They haven’t stated why prices are fluctuating. It’s profiteering. Simple as. Take the punter to the cleaners as they have no parking alternatives.
@GrumpyAulFella: TBH, for a fairly large number of destinations, you don’t have the choice of airline (e.g. many routes are only served by Ryanair), so you’d be more restricted in your choices than you might think.
Regarding how you get to the airport, here you have a choice between alternative modes of travel. You even have the choice whether you want to park at the airport or not.
I’ve little love for the DAA for various reasons, but load balancing the demand for limited parking spaces using dynamic pricing is nothing new and, in fact, is quite effective as long as pricing is transparent.
I see some comments criticising “price gouging by a semi-state”. To this one can counter that because it is a semi-state that pays dividends to the State from the profits it makes, underpricing parking would effectively amount to a subsidy. Why should those that choose to drive to the airport and park their car long-term be subsidised over e.g. those that use different means of travel?
@Boksburg Girl: thus far I am apparently:
- working for the DAA
- working for the Green Party
- working for the Social Democrats
- am Eamon Ryan
- unemployed
- working for Dublin City Council
- working for An Taisce
I wish I could do all these jobs. I’d be rich!
Covid being used again as to why 6000 parking spaces are not being used. Truth is there was no foreword thinking about this by management. Sack the board they are totally useless. Why not start at the top and get rid of Ryan.
Is not a car space a car space. Is there someone minding your car while your away. Do they detail it. Its just sitting there. Every day there is something or someone that will try screw more money from people.
My car will be parked at either Shannon or Cork!
The DAA is not managing the Airport for customers.
We all know about the check in delays but add in other issues : T1 has no central co course to calm passengers and they get funnelled out to the gates.
T2 is continually filthy and tables not cleaned. Toilets in both terminals not up to the mark and smelly. No paper towels like all continental ones
The food franchises are not performing and the fare is bad. Butlers the only one that’s good. Instant coffee being served in the small franchise on the left going to the gates T2 and filling station grade sandwiches. Burger King only offering Burgers and chips for breakfast with no hot drinks . Uk !
Try even getting close to the offering in T2 Heathrow . Appalling standards and totally ripped off on parking. Government run mess
‘Dynamic Pricing’
If people have money for all these expensive holidays let them pay up.
@Betty O Sullivan: ahhh would ye ever Shrup Betty.
@Betty O Sullivan: yes because that’s the ONLY reason why people travel. Not to visit sick or dying relatives, because shur, we have ZOOM.
@Boksburg Girl: Shrup
@Paul Gorry: Shrup u
Got T2 parking for €14 today.
Another reason to ditch the car.
@François Pignon: And what? Walk? You missed the whole point of no adequate public transport. Swoooooosh, over your head.
@Lisa Jones: M. Pignon another fake account set up by the DAA..
The Government needs to set up some real competition at Dublin airport..Need one terminal and some of the parking in private operators.
Take the bus .
As long as people continue to use the excuse for an airport that Dublin is, they will charge what they like, do what they like, treat people the way they like, and get away with it. For God’s sake, wake up, there’s life beyond the bloody M50, use the other airports in the country. Between Cork, Shannon and Belfast, there isn’t too many destinations you can’t get to.
Surly it should be cheaper if they have full all the time just another gouge ..move along nothing to see here
Dynamic rip off prices
When u see a donkey ride him
What about Knock
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