The DAA has changed its advice to passengers using Dublin Airport, reducing the time it advises people to arrive before their scheduled flight.
Passengers are now advised to arrive two hours before a short-haul flight and three hours before a long-haul flight. This is half an hour less in each case compared to the advice issued in April this year.
However, DAA advises passengers to allow an additional "of up to an hour" when checking in a luggage. The revisions were made after consulting with airlines, according to DAA.
Passengers had missed flights earlier this year due to lengthy waits at security checks and to enter the terminals at Dublin Airport, but the operator claims that these problems have been resolved.
According to DAA, "no substantial security issues in June, July, or August" have occurred, and no customers have missed flights as a result of following the guidance during these warm months.
Over 3 million people flew in and out of Dublin Airport during July, the busiest month in the past three years, according to DAA CEO Dalton Philip.
99% of all passengers passed through security in under 45 minutes, while 90% of passengers queued for 30 minutes or less. In the first two weeks of August, virtually all passengers were through security screening in 30 minutes or less.
The Defence Forces were ordered to be on standby in June to help with security at Dublin Airport, but DAA announced today that this necessity "ultimately did not materialise."
Therefore, the Defense Forces have been removed from this plan, and the DAA has stated that it has strengthened its security personnel and that a "ongoing recruitment drive" will bring personnel levels back to 2019 levels.
DAA CEO Philips acknowledged that the organization's forecasts of the post-Covid recovery of passenger numbers were "wildly inaccurate" in a speech to an Oireachtas Committee at the beginning of June.
Separately, Shannon Airport announced that it has added 19 additional Airport Screening Unit officers to its current roster since March of this year.
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