Although it has experienced a comparatively small number of difficulties since more than one thousand passengers missed their planes on a single day last month, Ireland’s primary airport is one of several in Europe that has failed to employ workers quickly enough to cope with a dramatic resurgence in travel. The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) requested that personnel of the defense forces be educated and certified so that they may be placed on standby to help with security responsibilities. This request was made since the number of COVID-19 cases in Ireland has recently begun to grow again.
On Tuesday, Ireland reached a consensus to put the army on standby in order to assist with security at Dublin airport in the event that personnel levels are impacted by a revival of COVID-19 throughout the remainder of the peak travel season during the summer.
Although it has experienced a comparatively small number of difficulties since more than one thousand passengers missed their planes on a single day last month, Ireland’s primary airport is one of several in Europe that has failed to employ workers quickly enough to cope with a dramatic resurgence in travel.
The Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) requested that personnel of the defense forces be educated and certified so that they may be placed on standby to help with security responsibilities. This request was made since the number of COVID-19 cases in Ireland has recently begun to grow again.
According to the statements made by the Ministry of Transport in 2022, more over one in four of the security personnel working at Dublin Airport were missing during the most recent significant COVID-19 wave.
“The defense forces will only be deployed in a scenario where there is a significant deterioration in passenger queueing times with the risk of large numbers of passengers missing their flights,” Transport Minister Eamon Ryan said in a statement. “The defense forces will only be deployed in a scenario where there is a significant deterioration in passenger queueing times.”
As of right now, the number of passengers using Dublin Airport is over 90 percent of what it was at this time in 2019, and Ryan added that the airport anticipated another 10 percent rise in the following weeks. He stated that the army will only be on standby during the months of July and August.
On Monday, a representative for the DAA said that the airport was on pace to fulfill its goal of having more than 900 security employees in place by the end of June, and that they wanted to add another 100 by the beginning of July.
At the height of the epidemic, the DAA laid off twenty-five percent of its workforce, a move that the organization’s top executive acknowledged this month was an excessively severe reduction.