Dublin Airport in a nutshell
Dublin Airport serves as the hub for Europe’s largest low-cost carrier – Ryanair – as well as for Aer Lingus, Ireland’s national airline. It is situated 11 km north of the city centre.
Dublin Airport is one of the major transport hubs and serves as the main gateway to the whole of Ireland.
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US Pre-clearance
Dublin is one of two airports in Europe (along with Shannon Airport in Ireland) that has a US pre-clearance facility within the terminal. Upon arrival in the United States, your flight will be processed as a domestic flight, saving you the often long queues typically found at US airports.
However, before departing from Dublin to the US, you should ideally arrive at the airport 3 hours before your flight.
You will also go through US Preclearance immigration checks in Dublin when transferring from another flight to a flight to the US.
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Be aware of the dimensions of your luggage. Employees, presumably from Ryanair, on Ryanair flights to Vienna are very aggressively and shoutingly charging for oversized luggage.
It is simply better to fly with a backpack of the allowed size... Otherwise, I doubt they were Ryanair employees. I assume they have some sort of handling agency in Dublin.
That's for sure. They checked the size of the luggage after "unzipping" so that passengers would not be able to throw anything out of the luggage or put it in a fellow passenger's luggage. I'm not sure about Ryanair, I was probably writing because Ryanair recently increased rewards to staff for being found with oversized luggage, and the behaviour of the staff at the gate was quite aggressive. It was clear he wanted the reward at any cost. So far, I have always encountered a fair attitude from employees towards passengers. But here, from the beginning, the shouting created a stressful situation.
Unfortunately I confirm, today's flight from Dublin cost very many people +75€. What normally passes elsewhere did not pass here, they really solved the centimeters. After 100+ flights with Ryanair I have to say that I have never seen such an aggressive approach as the staff in Dublin.