dublin airport terminal

It does seem that the relatively recently opened Pier C, the only vaguely comfortable boarding gates at Dublin Airport, will be leaving us to accomodate this.

You could never accuse Ireland of forward planning, could you?

I heard celebrity Linda Martin will open the new terminal singing

“Terminal 2, Flights on time”

Airport’s €120m Pier D ready for take off

Tuesday October 23 2007

RELIEF could finally be on hand for some of the long-suffering travelling public using Dublin Airport, as the €120m Pier D opens.

The airport is spending some €250m this year on upgrading the airport which has been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

This Sunday the public will finally begin to see some return for that outlay.

It is estimated that five million people a year will avail of the new facility.

The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) hopes the opening will improve the airport’s image which has taken a battering over its crowded hallways.

Dublin Airport boss Robert Hilliard agrees there was room for improvement: “The best I think we can say at the moment is that it works.”

Pier D, the DAA hopes, will start redressing the balance, as part of the overall €2bn 10-year plan for a complete modernisation.

Just four flights will go through the pier on its first day, before it “starts proper” on Tuesday.

“We want to make sure that any tweaks that are there will be worked through,” says Mr Hilliard.

Pier D can ultimately handle 12 flights at a time, but the facility will offer only six gates until next April. That’s because the DAA needs to dismantle existing infrastructure on one side of the pier before that side can take planes, Hilliard says.

“What we’re trying to do is cause as little disruption as possible,” he adds.

Pier D will be used almost exclusively by short-haul planes, with Ryanair and Aer Lingus likely to be the most frequent users.

For the short-haul passengers who do make it to the new pier, the DAA promises spacious surrounds, complete with a Soho Coffee Co coffee shop, a Thomas Read’s bar and a Hughes & Hughes bookshop. For the plane-gazers, there are near panoramic views of the airfield. It is a bit of a hike away — some 350m — but this will be traversed using new travelators through a corridor dubbed the “Skybridge”.

Looking at Pier D this week, it’s a mite difficult to see much of the vision the DAA waxes so lyrically about. The magnificent views are there for all to behold and the spaciousness of the place can’t be denied, but beyond that, Pier D is quite literally a hard-hat building site.

The DAA, however, is completely confident of the Pier’s opening next week “on time and on budget”.

Might finally be some relief. Still I dont think its going to alleviate the ‘dogs dinner’ image approach to construction at Dublin Airport.

Pier D opens as Pier C beomes the site of T2 – net result: bugger all difference

So has the massive portacabin aka the Pier A extension closed? I can tell you I won’t miss it when it’s gone!

And will the flights that used to go from the portacabin now user Pier D?

Is it just me or is one of the most important projects for this country looking quite poor based of these
low quality images???

this image has potential but…




and this kinda..

http://www.dublinairportauthority.com/Airport_Development/Terminal_2/image_gallery.html

going of these images how is Dublin going to become a world class city with world class architecture??
its going to be a mess???

Could you not use any bigger picture’s… :confused:

@cubix wrote:

hobart??what sort of comparison is that

Just a little dig at the Tasmanian original poster cubix.

I don’t know why they made it so hard to look out of the new walkway.

I would have loved to be able to look out at the old terminal building through big plate glass windows.

As it is now, you can barely see out at all.