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Airport staff offered €2,000 bonuses in bid to avoid more holiday chaos

DAA move aims to avoid repeat of last year’s missed flights due to monster queues at security clearance

DAA in crisis talks to avert threat of St Patrick’s weekend taxi strike

Taxi drivers are unhappy at Dublin Airport management’s refusal to recognise their associations in negotiations

Record number of passengers at Dublin and Cork airport last month

Number of passengers travelling through Dublin Airport in February was 55 per cent higher than in February 2022

Record 2.1 million passengers travelled through Dublin Airport in January

Airport authority reports 2 per cent growth compared to January 2019

High fees on taxi drivers at Dublin Airport compounding ride shortages, Free Now tells government

Taxi company says that 75% of taxis which travel to the airport leave without customers due to rules requiring them to have a permit, which costs €440 per year

Strikes may deter air passengers between Britain and Ireland

Industrial action by rail workers and staff at British airports could curtail demand over the Christmas period

Spreading his wings: Kenny Jacobs’ move to the top flight

Kenny Jacobs’ lack of experience in any top role may be a concern as he takes the reins at DAA, but his strong background as a good communicator, retailer and marketer should stand to him as he looks to grow the semi-state airport company’s airports reach at home and abroad

Dublin Airport: Fight over wages deepens as staff refuse to withdraw industrial action threat

Siptu accuses DAA management of being ‘out of touch’ and ‘fundamentally disrespectful’ to workers impacted by pay issues

DAA was warned of ‘obvious gaps’ in cleaning standards weeks before May Bank Holiday chaos

Airport operator was told that outsourcing of cleaning was causing issues in a letter sent weeks before the infamous May Bank Holiday weekend

DAA hires extra cleaning company after criticism over hygiene at Dublin Airport

MCR Group has been contracted on a ‘short-term basis’ after a shortage of outsourced cleaning staff led to widespread complaints over hygiene at the airport

Staff rostering system restored months before Dublin Airport chaos began

While processes were undermined by cyberattack in December, IT firm says its customers had safe and secure access by January

Matt Cooper: The real bogey for golf is the lure of the huge pot of Saudi money, not the ethics

The participation of some of golf’s biggest names in the Saudi-backed LIV Golf event has thrown the administration of professional golf into turmoil

DAA asked aviation regulator for short queue bonuses

The operator of Dublin Airport said it should be ‘incentivised’ to keep queues below 20 minutes and 30 minutes respectivel, for a certain percentage of time rather than being penalised when it failed to do so

Lacking authority: How DAA struggled to hold the line and will it happen again?

The chaotic scenes witnessed at the country’s biggest airport in recent days have their root in DAA’s drastic misjudgment of a problem it had seen coming from a long way off. As the pressure slowly eases, the question now is whether such lengthy queues can be prevented in the future

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Editorial: Queue chaos not the only area where DAA failing passengers

Passenger experience matters, and first impressions matter – and as Ireland’s most important piece of infrastructure, Dublin Airport must be better prepared

Matt Cooper: Avolon boss’s €150m plan to bring the brightest and best here could pay off

It will be considered elitist by some, but Dómhnal Slattery’s proposal to attract the ‘best brainpower in the world’ to Ireland to carry out research here could bring big rewards

‘The public is in disbelief at this fiasco’: Opposition criticises Dublin airport delays

Sinn Féin and Labour leaders seek guarantee that there will not be more travel chaos over the June Bank Holiday weekend

DAA will increase security lanes at peak times amid fears of further delays this weekend

Authority has been told to publish a plan for managing crowds ahead of the bank holiday weekend, after chaotic scenes last Sunday

Dublin Airport queues causing ‘reputational damage’ to the country — Eamon Ryan

Daily meetings to be held between the government and DAA until issue of excessive wait times is resolved

Dalton Philips departs daa to become Greencore chief executive

Philips will take up his new role at the convenience food giant in September, replacing Patrick Coveney who left at the end of March