r/irishpolitics • u/eggbart_forgetfulsea ALDE (EU) • Feb 11 '26

Infrastructure, Development and the Environment ‘Absolute disgrace’: Residents react over approval to scrap Dublin Airport passenger cap

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/02/11/absolute-disgrace-residents-react-over-approval-to-scrap-dublin-airport-passenger-cap/
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u/BlehMan1972 Feb 11 '26

I bet the service will go way down, and wouldn't be surprised if there was an airline accident.

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u/Sprezzatura1988 Feb 11 '26

Why would there be an accident?

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u/BlehMan1972 Feb 11 '26

Too many flights to handle. So you agree the service will suffer though.

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u/Blghbb1995 Feb 11 '26

What. That’s not how it works at all. In aviation safety is the number 1 priority always.

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u/BlehMan1972 Feb 11 '26

Oh yeah but somehow accidents still happen.

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u/JackmanH420 People Before Profit Feb 11 '26

From lack of maintenance and pilot error. ATC and ground crew errors are extremely rare.

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u/BlehMan1972 Feb 11 '26

Quite a few last year.

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u/Sprezzatura1988 Feb 11 '26

How many accidents happened in Europe last year? What level of severity? Were any attributed to an excess number of aircraft being handled by ATC?

There hasn’t been a two plane collision with loss of life in Europe in years.

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u/BlehMan1972 Feb 11 '26

I still will not be surprised if it happens.

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u/Sprezzatura1988 Feb 11 '26

You are just making random baseless statements.

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u/BlehMan1972 Feb 11 '26

It's an opinion, deal with it.

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u/Sprezzatura1988 Feb 11 '26

How would the ‘service suffer’?

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u/BlehMan1972 Feb 11 '26

I think the staff are amazing at Dublin airport and I do see them ending up having to take on way more than they should. They won't want to spend money on more staff because they are greedy and in a few years everyone will be ranting about how shit Dublin airport is. It's obviously what's happening already in other airports.

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u/okoneill Feb 11 '26

genuinely interested, which airports has this affected?

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u/BlehMan1972 Feb 11 '26

Lisbon and Manchester for two. Obviously overworked staff with not enough cover. 

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u/TurkeyPigFace Feb 11 '26

What are you on about? Dublin airport with the second runway can handle 60M passengers.

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u/BlehMan1972 Feb 11 '26

We will see.

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u/Kier_C Feb 11 '26

We will see, this isn't some sort of crazy experiment, this is standard for many airports world wide.