Ryanair Criticises DAA Security as 50 Passengers Miss Flights on Saturday

Ryanair, Dublin Airport’s largest airline, criticised the DAA Monopoly for its failure to efficiently operate security last Saturday morning (27th June 09) which caused over 50 Ryanair passengers to miss their early morning flights. This is the second major Dublin Airport security failure so far this summer after long queues on 26th May resulted in over 100 passengers missing their flights.

 

Ryanair passengers reported delays of over 30 minutes to clear passenger security which contradicts the DAA’s recent claims that it takes a maximum of 15 minutes.
 
Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said: “The DAA’s spokesperson, Siobhan Moore, claimed during radio interviews last month that it takes ‘a maximum of 15 minutes’ to clear security at Dublin Airport and denied claims that passengers were missing flights as a result of security queues. 

On Saturday, passengers had to suffer long (30 minute) security delays and over 50 Ryanair passengers missed flights as a result.  Ryanair calls on DAA’s Siobhan Moore to explain why the DAA Monopoly is unable to meet their 15 minute target and why hundreds of passengers were faced with security queues in excess of 30 minutes on Saturday morning and what extra measures they are putting in place to prevent it happening again.”

(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 30-Jun-09