Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 June 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Security, Recruitment and Training at Dublin Airport: Discussion

Mr. Kenny Jacobs:

The free bag with Aer Lingus and the long-haul element means people having bigger bags and always putting them in the hold. We thus end up with more hold bags in terminal 2 than in terminal 1. It is now the peak of the summer. There are couple of outliers I would call out. There are a few individual handlers and airlines that face a more challenging time on it. Then there are a few inbound airports. Canadian airports featured last year. I suspect they may feature as having issues with inbound bags where they are getting the bag on the aircraft more slowly and the aircraft is taking off from Canada without all the bags on board. A little bit of that may be replayed but I do not think it will be the same drama as it was last year. Generally, Dublin Airport is good as measured by that metric of blocks to belt. We will be looking to maintain that 18 to 20 minutes figure year-round, but the summer is the challenging part of that.

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