Dublin Airport - Terminal 2

[nick]

Just got back from Dublin last night, flew Aer Lingus so experienced the new Terminal 2 for the first time. Well I'm not always a fan of modern architecture but, wow, what a building.

Who else has been through there?

http://www.fabricarchitecture.com/news/assets/media/Dublin3.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/5057873129_cae98fe5f9_z.jpg

http://www.pascalls.co.uk/img/dublin-terminal2-1.jpg

One criticism though, no wifi available at the departure gates which I thought was crap really.

[Malcolm Tucker]

I was in it before Aer Lingus moved in, when just Middle Eastern airline Etihad was using it 2x daily. It is amazing, an invaluable asset to our country and its US Customs & Pre-Clearance facilities are the main reason. It's also going to take the pressure off the older terminal, which is showing its age but still will do for a long long time. It was designed by the same firm who did Heathrow's Terminal 5. It's already gotten us a new Trans-Atlantic service! It's great, and I can't wait to fly/work out of it properly!

[CaptainObvious]

I was in it before Aer Lingus moved in, when just Middle Eastern airline Etihad was using it 2x daily. It is amazing, an invaluable asset to our country and its US Customs & Pre-Clearance facilities are the main reason. It's also going to take the pressure off the older terminal, which is showing its age but still will do for a long long time. It was designed by the same firm who did Heathrow's Terminal 5. It's already gotten us a new Trans-Atlantic service! It's great, and I can't wait to fly/work out of it properly!

Isn't it just preinspection? I was reading about this the other day out of a legal curiosity and apparently flights from Dublin must still land at an international terminal, whereas coming from Canada my flights land domestic in the US.

[Malcolm Tucker]

Isn't it just preinspection? I was reading about this the other day out of a legal curiosity and apparently flights from Dublin must still land at an international terminal, whereas coming from Canada my flights land domestic in the US.

Would the term not have been preclearance? That's what it's known as.

No. The new facilities in T2 have both immigration, and full customs clearance. For all intents and purposes the flights are considered US Domestic flights. So passengers when they arrive in the USA, don't clear customs again, and just walk out into the terminal building - no security or anything. It'd be like arriving on an internal flight in America.

As such, it also means no duty-free items can be sold on the flight. Anything bought in duty-free in Dublin must be under 100ml/3oz or it'll be confiscated.

Also, they land at international terminals for a number of reasons.


The planes doing the Dublin-America flights would then be used on other Europe/Long Haul flights, so would need to depart from the international terminal
Delta, US Airways, and Continental (United) can park the planes anywhere they have space, as they fly from their main hubs to Dublin, so from their individual terminal(s). But for the reason above, they mainly wont.
Aer Lingus will still stay at international terminals for the time being in the US. However, in New York, and Boston they could reach a deal with their partners JetBlue to facilitate them at their terminals (space being the major factor here, the Aer Lingus T/A plane is HUGE compared to JetBlue's fleet). This would allow speedy connections to JetBlue services, which EI passnegers can book through Aer Lingus.

[CaptainObvious]

Would the term not have been preclearance? That's what it's known as.

No. The new facilities in T2 have both immigration, and full customs clearance. For all intents and purposes the flights are considered US Domestic flights. So passengers when they arrive in the USA, don't clear customs again, and just walk out into the terminal building - no security or anything. It'd be like arriving on an internal flight in America.

Yes, that's what I was asking. I was under the impression that previously Irish airports had the immigration but not customs functions and so flights still had to arrive international.

[canyon]

That's a really nice terminal, nothing like the airports here. I have yet to find anything like that in Newark or LaGuardia :D
And are those pictures by you? If they are, how is it so empty in there? Lol.

[nick]

That's a really nice terminal, nothing like the airports here. I have yet to find anything like that in Newark or LaGuardia :D
And are those pictures by you? If they are, how is it so empty in there? Lol.
No, I found those photos from google.