the dublin airport authority and air
lingus have been up in front of the
iraqis committee laying out their plan
for the rest of the summer the dublin
airport authority says that things are
much improved
well over 90 people under 45 minutes and
and over 80 percent over under 30
minutes will continue through the
weekends
but it isn't all all good news because
our linguists say that they can't
guarantee that more flights uh won't be
cancelled throughout the summer
we are being
told to do mandatory cancellations
particularly from amsterdam
and from heathrow to reduce
our flights and the number of flights we
had planned we're seeing security
screening issues in these airports we
are seeing baggage system failures in
these airports particularly at amsterdam
and the tethrall what do you make of
what we've seen so far this summer
at dublin airport because that's where
the problem is
and and what you make of what what uh
we've heard from the iraqis committee
today dublin airport saying look you
know we're doing well now things are
getting back on track for us
yeah well
clear they're not but getting back on
track and uh i don't agree with the
statement vincent harrison met today to
the iraqis committee on transport in
actual fact just this morning euro
control sent out figures in relation to
arrivals and departures out of all of
the main european airports and dublin is
down at the very very last rung of that
for example in relation to arrivals just
roughly 51 percent of flights are on
time
coming in and now coming into dublin and
departures 49
there goes one and every two flights are
delayed or not on time not the 85 90
that he's talking about and so on on
time is
basically 15 minutes in aviation terms
so that is thereabouts the worst in
europe like madrid is 76
uh arrivals uh
charles or orlais is 75 or so helsinki
is over 70 so that's the first thing so
dublin
is a particular basket case
unfortunately and frankly that's the
situat situation what caused it poor
decision making by senior management and
board letting go of too many staff
too many experience and skilled staff
and trying to replace them in fairness
they've replaced some of those they've
been placed replaced a couple of hundred
staff at this stage but it is going to
take time it's going to be probably
march april of next year before we see
things stabilizing again in dublin
airport haven't other airports didn't
they do likewise during the pandemic let
go of a lot of staff and then had those
critical staffing shortages when
everything reopened and business was uh
busier than they anticipated well that's
what the daa said
that's what the dea said
other airports in some cases yes they've
let go staff but not in the quantities
and in the particular areas that dublin
airport let go of staff a lot of other
airports were a lot more conservative
and letting go of staff rather than just
kind of a
blank or a blanket let go of
particularly skill staff over a thousand
skilled staff that takes time to get
that experience they got training back
again under the asset european aviation
safety authority rules and guidelines
there are very very significant training
to be done and an experience to be
gained in order for somebody to actually
go and do their job at airports
particularly the ones the jobs that have
been lost so yes claire some have been
in relation to other airports like for
example take ryanair rainier let go of
very very few staff during the covert
pandemic they held on to the vast
majority of staff and now today we see
that ryanair passenger numbers are 14
above what they were at the peak at this
time in 2019 so it's not true and it's
not being upfront and honest to say that
this is dublin airport saying this is
happening uh all over europe it is but
not to the extent it happened in dublin