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DUBLIN AIRPORT HAS warned passengers to take a bus or taxi or get a lift to the airport this weekend if they haven’t sorted parking as its car parks are sold out.
The airport is expecting to see around 450,000 passengers over the bank holiday weekend, with Sunday set to be the busiest day, as 117,000 passengers are expected to travel through .
Passengers are advised to arrive at their terminal two hours in advance of a short-haul flight, and three hours before a long-haul flight.
Dublin Airport has experienced parking shortages previously, especially around bank holiday weekends.
Previously, it has attempted to purchase the defunct QuickPark commercial car park in Santry. Earlier this month it said was seeking to become the summer operators after its bid to buy the facility was blocked by the competitions watchdog.
Passengers have been advised to visit the security page on the Dublin Airport website before their trip to the airport, to help prepare for the security screening process.
Director of communications at DAA, Sarah Ryan, said, “By preparing smartly in advance, passengers can avoid needless delays.”
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If ever an airport needed a rail link, it’s Dublin. Why is it beyond the wit of the government to provide it, even a spur line from the dart?
Third world infrastructure and incompetent politicians!
@Brian Hunt: Agree, but people will still find reasons why they, in particular, “have to” drive there in their cars.
@Soundy Sound: well unfortunately some will because to get to the services from out side the city links . We would not be far from St margrets but it would still so near the airport. You still need to go in car especially if you have kids . It’s easy to judge people who can’t just hop on a bus train or link travel with in walking distance
@Brian Hunt: huge big sight a stones throw from the airport called Thornton hall … already owned by a stat agency……it would be easy enough to build 20 multi storey carparks on it and an elevated railway service to and from the airport…. might upset the refugees going into it next week though
@Brian Hunt: A Rail link from Ireland West Airport to Dublin.
@Brian Hunt: it’s a sign of air fares being too cheap, need to tax aviation fuel.
@Soundy Sound:
You can’t rely on public transport to get you there in time or even turn up. I live 15 mins from the airport, I usually use taxis but I have driven and parked too. Waiting for a bus is a gamble I won’t take. I’d imagine any train service would be just as unreliable.
@Soundy Sound: So don’t build a railway line?
What a shambles.
Why are comments open here on a pointless article and we cannot comment on the scandal that is the “New” never to be finished Childrens Hospital that the taxpayers money keeps getting dumped into ???? BAM need to be held to task on this. Why were there not time penalties placed on this shambles against the Contractor ?
@John Merriman: As per law in their native Holland, they should be fined every day past the contracted completion date. Literally holding the state to ransom.. with a children’s hospital of all things! They should have whatever licenses are applicable revoked and not be allowed to build as much as garden shed in this country ever again.
Ireland… ‘No we cant’
Dublin really is a kip.
Dublin Airport sold out to the money gougers and ripoff merchants a long time ago, not just the carparks!
Capacity planning might be a good idea.
Spin Fein has lost the low IQ voter
@Pat Hazzard: Ah! I figured out who you are now. Hillary Clinton, except you previously used ‘ basket of deplorables’. Didn’t work out very well for you then either.
For the record, I would have nothing to do with Sinn Fein or any politicians.
Dublin Airport sold out to the money gougers and ripoff merchants a long time ago, not just the carparks!
@Padraig O’Brien: Is there an echo in here?
The grey market for reselling dublin airport carparking spaces for summer is about to take off
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