A Perfect storm.

[Belker]

A Perfect storm has been brewing fer the last few weeks and it came to fruition last Sat night perfectly.

Liverpool were in the Champions league final and a good percentage of night time Taxi drivers are Liverpool supporters who took the night off to go to the pub to support their team, but left the Taxi fleet all over the country decimated.

[Belker]

Down here in Cork last Sat night we had the Marquee sold out, a GAA match in Pairc ui Rinn, 2 sold out shows at the Opera house, a lovely sunny day, and the town was packed to the rafters from 8pm on with barely a Taxi in sight.

From midnight till 5am it was near impossible to get a Taxi and people just had to wait or walk, and it was nearly 5am before the Cork taxies had the last of the town hoovered up.

And with that said it just might have been part of the reason fer the absences from the Dub airport staff last Sun morning ??

[Dr. Martin Gooter Bling]

majin if it hadda pissed rain all night as well.
majin if the pool hadda won.
that's perfect storm stuff.
ye gerra night like that once every 5 year i reckon.
i remember the freak snow in dublin there a few year ago. went out monday and tuesday narrowly avoiding writing the car off multiple times. could'nt get out of my estate wednesday tires were just spinning on the ice. hit the sidelines wednesday and thursday.
the friday came and i went out to the car and i hadda a total flat tire.. that's why the tires were spinnin and the car would'nt move. bollocksssssssssssss i says. changed it and went out. roads had been plowed, no traffic, no taxis, no buses, pubs were packed, carnival atmosphere all day and night.

[silverbullet]

Down here in Cork last Sat night we had the Marquee sold out, a GAA match in Pairc ui Rinn, 2 sold out shows at the Opera house, a lovely sunny day, and the town was packed to the rafters from 8pm on with barely a Taxi in sight.

From midnight till 5am it was near impossible to get a Taxi and people just had to wait or walk, and it was nearly 5am before the Cork taxies had the last of the town hoovered up.

And with that said it just might have been part of the reason fer the absences from the Dub airport staff last Sun morning ??

While we don't have Park Ur Ring up here, we had Dublin V Kildare followed by Leinster V La Rochelle topped off by Liverpool V Real Madrid.

Now if you add into the mix pissed up parents with communion kids, in the pubs from 2 in the afternoon...well.

The icing on the cake was the Free Now App crashing, in my case for three and a half hours.

[watty]

And with that said it just might have been part of the reason fer the absences from the Dub airport staff last Sun morning ??

No. They airport made ~1,000 people redundant during the pandemic and wrote it in the redundancy contract that they wouldn't be re-hired.  Most people book their flights months in advance so the airport knew the numbers of passengers coming each day.  But for some reason, they never planned for those numbers.  So when the shit hit the fan, there wasn't enough time to hire staff, get them Garda-vetted and trained.  Pay and conditions are shite as well.  Very poor management treating staff like dirt.

[silverbullet]

And with that said it just might have been part of the reason fer the absences from the Dub airport staff last Sun morning ??

No. They airport made ~1,000 people redundant during the pandemic and wrote it in the redundancy contract that they wouldn't be re-hired.  Most people book their flights months in advance so the airport knew the numbers of passengers coming each day.  But for some reason, they never planned for those numbers.  So when the shit hit the fan, there wasn't enough time to hire staff, get them Garda-vetted and trained.  Pay and conditions are shite as well.  Very poor management treating staff like dirt.

DAA/AER RIANTA are technically semi-state, where nepotism reigns supreme. Political appointees abound.
As to where Dalton Phillips is in all of this is anyone's guess.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40884521.html

Brian Drain actually works for Aer Rianta.

[Belker]

I would agree there Watty, I heard a whisper that those that were laid off were offered much lower rates of pay to return to work which was the vast majority of the problem.
I just added that the Liverpool issue and the staff absences the next morning was a contributing factor.

[Belker]

...... The icing on the cake was the Free Now App crashing, in my case for three and a half hours.....

The app never actually crashed down here last Sat night but it was acting the maggot big time at busy hours.

[Bob Shillin]

Know a guy who got a fairly senior management position not that long ago at Dap, and when he complained, and was embarrassed, about not enough work to do he was advised to relax and enjoy. He left and got a more interesting and responsible job.

[silverbullet]

Know a guy who got a fairly senior management position not that long ago at Dap, and when he complained, and was embarrassed, about not enough work to do he was advised to relax and enjoy. He left and got a more interesting and responsible job.

Anyone who joined AER LINGUS/AER RIANTA were soon told to slow down as it makes the rest of the organisation looks lazy...it's only tax payers money after all.