Marquees are in place outside Dublin Airport this morning - in a new measure to deal with overcrowding.
It means people won't have to queue in the rain over the busy bank holiday weekend.
52,000 passengers will fly out of the airport today - and nearly 200,000 over the next four days.
The airport fell "extremely" short of its obligations to passengers due to a spike in passenger numbers and the absence of 37 staff, the Oireachtas transport committee heard yesterday.
During busy times, queues will now be “triaged” so that only passengers with a flight within two and a half hours for short haul or three and a half hours for long haul will be allowed into the departures level.
The transport committee also heard that an “anomaly” led to 17 new recruits being rostered on security detail last Sunday before they were certified, causing travel chaos at Dublin Airport.
Speaking to RTE this week, Sinn Féin transport spokesman Darren O’Rourke TD said passengers who are travelling this weekend need “absolute assurance” that this system will work.
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