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THE BOSSES OF Dublin Airport have said staff are ready for a busy weekend on this first Bank Holiday of the summer season.
Gary McLean, managing director of the airport’s operator DAA, told reporters at an event in Dublin this week that staff and management are expecting to see upwards of 110,000 people pass through the airport in one day over the period.
While every Bank Holiday weekend is busy, McLean said that the four-day periods have been getting busier and busier, as the operators are ramping up business this year and expect to meet the passenger cap of 32 million people passing through the airport.
The main thing for passengers to look out for? McLean said it’s parking.
While the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission welcomed the idea for the out-of-use car park to be operated by a different entity on a short-term basis, the watchdog said it should not be DAA who controls it in the long run.
The managing director said the airport has already warned passengers that parking availability will be “tight” this weekend and have urged those who wish to drive to the airport to book their space in advance.
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Kenny Jacobs, CEO of DAA, also told the company’s press conference this week that passengers should also consider taking the bus as, for the first time, the airport will have 1,000 bus services a day, catering to all 32 counties.
DAA chief executive Kenny Jacobs promoted for passengers to considering taking one of the bus services to Dublin Airport. Alamy Stock Photo
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Jacobs added that, over the last two years, there has been an increase in the number of passengers who come to the airport via bus and a slow decrease in the number of passengers who arrive by car.
Security times have improved, according to McLean, who said 97% of the 16 million departing passengers who went through screening last year were through in 20 minutes.
The DAA is also halfway through its project to install 35 C3 Scanners across both terminals, which do not require passengers to remove liquids or devices from their bag.
McLean added he hopes there will be an increase in the number of passengers who use the new scanners at security this summer.
“We’re still recommending people, the same as 2023, arrive two hours in advance for a short haul [flight] or three hours in advance of the long haul and that people prepare for security as they would before,” the managing director said.
“We need everyone to prepare as if they will be on the old technology so that we don’t slow down the system, where people might think they can leave stuff in their bags.”
Elsewhere, Shannon is expecting to have 46,000 passengers pass through the airport over this Bank Holiday period. Shannon Airport is expecting an “influx of passengers from all over Ireland,” according to CEO Mary Considine.
Similarly, Shannon Airport is warning passengers to book their parking in advance. The owners of the airport have said that 130,000 seats are on offer to areas all over the EU, the United States and the UK in the summer months.
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For the people who have never smoked that make comments such as “just give them up” please keep those comment to yourself as you haven’t a clue what your talking about. I smoked since I was 13 (23yrs smoking) and tried every available smoking cessation aid from gum to patches to hypnotism and even cold turkey… but always slipped back on them after a period of time. E-cigarettes are to date the only aid that had successfully kept me away from cigarettes with no wish to go back smoking again. To date I’m am 3 years cigarette free, My nicotine level is the lowest that you can use without being zero at 3mg. I feel better, better breathing, no pains in my chest in the mornings, I can run more than 20feet without being winded and my color has returned from what was previously a shade of grey when smoking cigarettes to a healthy pink.
Yesterday was what should have been a positive day for e-cigarettes with a recognised medical institute publishing a report on how e-cigarettes are beneficial to aid in quitting cigarettes and once again RTE has done a fine Job of taking what was apparently a much more detailed report and turning into a media circus to be ridiculed and laughed at.
Ultimately e-cigarettes are not only a way for a group of friends to meet up and blow smoke rings and do tricks as this report would make you think to watch it. This activity is no doubt a part of smoke groups within the e-cigarette user culture but it is not what done by everyone that uses e-cigarettes but only a minority.
At the end of the day if you smoke and want to give up give e-cigarettes a try.. you won’t be expected to blow smoke rings.. if they are not for you then fine, find another method that suits or just keep smoking, it’s up to you.
If your not a smoker then don’t begrudge or belittle what you really have no idea about and carry on with your own life.
Well thats your opinion and your entitled to it. But as I said not everyone that uses E-cigarettes chooses to use them as they were shown on the RTE report. It’s down to personal choice. Are you a smoker?
Well done Michael on staying off them. Keep going and whether you choose to keep using the e-cigarette or give them up aswell stay away from the cigarettes anyway.
Let’s be clear. RTE were reporting on an evidence based report from the Royal College of Physicians which basically stated that e-cigarettes are 95% safer than smoking tobacco. They made an editorial decision to ‘balance’ the piece, as if balance was needed, with a spokesperson from the Irish Cancer Society who, based on no evidence whatsoever, maintain the apparently irrational policy that Ecigarettes should not be used, despite their stated aim to reduce cancer in Irish society. The ICS are funded by GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Novartis and other pharmaceutical companies, which are losing millions because of reduced sales of largely ineffective nicotine replacement products. RTE threw in footage of Vapers looking like idiots for good measure. Our national public service broadcaster, and the ICS are overtly serving the interests of pharmaceutical companies over the interest of public health. RTE does this repeatedly. RTE is a disgrace to journalism.
The people most invested in e-cigs not being successful is big tobacco, there a well versed in marketing and lobbying – see this article from yesterday from an unbiased and well-respected group. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36139618
Here guys im the bloke in the wine hoddie that was blowing os im vaping 2years now and ues i can do a few tricks and stuff rte asked me and the lads to do some and for the people who are saying look he is callung it a hoobby there wad a lot more siad on my part i was interviewd for 10 mins okay ya dont like it ring up rye and make your own video
Alridhy guys im one of the lads that was intevied me abd the other guys done what rte asked and fo the hobbie thing that i siad i was interviewd for more than ten mins i siad alot more thing then its now turning into a hobbie wlright
Trying to make ‘vaping cool’ for the younger generation??.. Do not show this again on tv, where children have easy access to this and will most definitely try this if they see it
As a non smoker these fumes make me sick compared to the old cigs, I really believe these things are bad for you as people used die of nicotine poisoning when they used nicotine as a pesticide once.
You cannot compare carboxelated tobacco with hundreds of poisonous chemicals added to it to some e-cig vapour containing nicotine, glycerine and another couple of chemicals
It’s amazing that you don’t even realise how ill-informed your opinion is. You’d rather see us all smoking, instead of the scientifically proven, 95% safer, vaping? Do you even know what this is in relation to? You clearly haven’t even read up on the latest findings? Also, if nicotine is your major concern, why don’t you go moan at your local pharmacist for selling nicotine patches, gum and sprays over the counter? Tell them they’re poisoning everyone … see how that goes.
Why not ask a non smoker, I got a lungful of that vapour stuff once and it made me as sick as a dog but it seems there is more nicotine in vapours than cigs?
Oh God.. I’m in stitches.. no really I am.. Mr Sands you should really do some research on the topics you choose to comment on. Nicotine is toxic yes, as is caffeine in large enough quantities.. the same applies to nicotine. Also the levels of nicotine in e-cigarette vapor is much lower than that of cigarette smoke. On a side note.. the earth also is not flat contrary to what you heard the lad sitting at the bar at your local saying.
Clearly Mr Sands your just another misinformed individual riding on the belief of second hand information that is completely incorrect. You should do some research on the topics you choose to comment on.
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