Italy must always be falling apart if you've ever flown from there. But Dublin Airport world famous now - for all the wrong reasons. Let all the staff take early retirement during Covid, replaced them with minimum wage workers and now you can't even guarantee you'll get through on the same day your flight is. Great planning.

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Last time I was in Dublin was around 2007.

I was told then that Dublin was the only capital city in Europe that did not have a rail service to the airport. Only one road there and if there was a pileup you were stuffed. There was talk of extending the tram to the airport.

Did they ever do anything?

One more point

I think 5 hours is a reasonable flight time for a company to allow upgrading - most of my flights at the time were Middle East / East Africa so the vast majority of them would have been economy class bookings anyway - I dont mind travel rules so long as everyone sticks to them, but there is always someone ( or a small group) who think that the rules dont apply to them & try to kick the backside out of it -

Zero income tax helped in Dubai I expect

Edited by HKOwen (30 May 2022 1.49pm)

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Under NO circumstances can we blame the CONservative government dolphin- they have only had 12 years to get things right- by the looks of it they will need a LOT more time, perhaps another 50? In any case, giving people temporary working contracts at the airport wasn"t bungles idea, it was CONservative maggies, I know, I was on one loading planes at Gatwick- so no, although it was the CONservatives , it was alas Maggies idea- the temporary staff don"t get the same perks as the permenant staff, holiday pay and sick pay etc- and the companies say stay a year, and you might get a permenant contract with wages you can actually survive on! As you can imagine, at the years end unfortunately they can"t give you the permenant contract- but stay another year on crap money why don"t you? I"m starting to enjoy the misery I predicted on the CONservatives, the country really is the laughing stock of Europe, led by a donkey- It would be a shame for any other party to take over and try and right 12 years of wrong, so enjoy the ride dolphin, the high prices, shortages, long NHS waits, don"t get toothache unless you can use a pair of pliars, stock up on candles for the predicted power cuts this winter- and what ever you do- DO NOT BLAME THE CONSERVATIVES- THEY NEED TIME TO FIND THEIR FEET!

I'm flying around then as well. I'm going to be five hours before my flight, just in case. Has reached ministerial level here but the minister's a Green - so may or may not sort it. Usually tells people to ride a bike.

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