Comments on: Dublin Airport Closed http://www.dublinblog.ie/2008/07/09/dublin-airport-closed/ An award winning group blog, written by some of Dublin's best, most prolific, witty and engaging bloggers about the life and goings on in and around Dublin City Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:56:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: lorcan http://www.dublinblog.ie/2008/07/09/dublin-airport-closed/comment-page-1/#comment-311052 lorcan Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:00:29 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/?p=1161#comment-311052 radar systems are literally a matter of life and death when it comes to air traffic control so its better to be sure than tragic in other words when it comes to safety of life and limb evertything works or nothing works i would rather be delayed than dead that said apart from this serious radar problem dublin is THE worst airport in the world to fly out of the q sare crazy even at 4 and 5 am !! WHY ?? nothing 2 do with air traffic control here or the much and unjustly malignied baggage handlers who are just trying to make a living out of a shite job but why the fuck are the q s longer and check in longer than airports in the third world as i have been there even jamaica is more efficent than dublin for check in if u do not believe me just go to dublin airport any morning 5 6 am masses of people going nowhere fast but very slow WHY? radar systems are literally a matter of life and death when it comes to air traffic control
so its better to be sure than tragic in other words when it comes to safety of life and limb
evertything works or nothing works i would rather be delayed than dead that said apart from this serious radar problem dublin is THE worst airport in the world to fly out of the q sare crazy even at 4 and 5 am !! WHY ?? nothing 2 do with air traffic control here or the much and unjustly malignied baggage handlers who are just trying to make a living out of a shite job but why the fuck are the q s longer and check in longer than airports in the third world as i have been there even jamaica is more efficent than dublin for check in if u do not believe me just go to dublin airport any morning 5 6 am masses of people going nowhere fast but very slow WHY?

]]> By: tim brennan http://www.dublinblog.ie/2008/07/09/dublin-airport-closed/comment-page-1/#comment-306605 tim brennan Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:49:31 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/?p=1161#comment-306605 Crazy! We;ve had two near misses in the last few days here in NY! Do you know most of these planes don't even have gps! - Tim www.mostemailednews.com Crazy! We;ve had two near misses in the last few days here in NY! Do you know most of these planes don’t even have gps!

- Tim

http://www.mostemailednews.com

]]> By: andima http://www.dublinblog.ie/2008/07/09/dublin-airport-closed/comment-page-1/#comment-306102 andima Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:50:07 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/?p=1161#comment-306102 Yesterday night just one hour of delay but with Ryanair is usual I guess :) anyway please read here what about a taxi driver: http://andimaie.blogspot.com/2008/07/welcome-to-ireland.html Yesterday night just one hour of delay but with Ryanair is usual I guess :) anyway please read here what about a taxi driver:
http://andimaie.blogspot.com/2008/07/welcome-to-ireland.html

]]> By: Dervla http://www.dublinblog.ie/2008/07/09/dublin-airport-closed/comment-page-1/#comment-304048 Dervla Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:34:29 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/?p=1161#comment-304048 Sounds like Dublin airport is still chaos. Most of the news reports this evening are saying theres a big lack of information and announcements. What a disaster. Sounds like Dublin airport is still chaos. Most of the news reports this evening are saying theres a big lack of information and announcements. What a disaster.

]]> By: Dec http://www.dublinblog.ie/2008/07/09/dublin-airport-closed/comment-page-1/#comment-303450 Dec Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:29:18 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/?p=1161#comment-303450 Apparently it's failed 5 times in the last 5 weeks and they havent been able to locate the problem. Apparently it’s failed 5 times in the last 5 weeks and they havent been able to locate the problem.

]]> By: Catherine http://www.dublinblog.ie/2008/07/09/dublin-airport-closed/comment-page-1/#comment-303446 Catherine Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:15:48 +0000 http://www.dublinblog.ie/?p=1161#comment-303446 BBC are saying the runways were shut for at least 15 minutes earlier: http://url.ie/ig3 It's pretty worrying alright. There were delays as far back as 10am this morning - my parents' flight from NY was delayed by an hour and a half. I'm wondering if the system had already failed a couple of times before the first announcement... BBC are saying the runways were shut for at least 15 minutes earlier: http://url.ie/ig3

It’s pretty worrying alright. There were delays as far back as 10am this morning – my parents’ flight from NY was delayed by an hour and a half. I’m wondering if the system had already failed a couple of times before the first announcement…

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