Ninety miss flights over airport security delays
Was it industrial action or a thorough security job? Ninety passengers who missed their flights at Dublin airport Friday want to know
Industrial action — or, as they call it across the Atlantic, a “work to rule,” is difficult to prove when it comes to airport security. Is the security checker at the check point who is exceedingly methodical examining the contents of your carry-on luggage doing his job thoroughly — or he is slowing things down on purpose?
RTE News reports that this is the question to which Irish passengers want an answer. Almost ninety passengers missed their flights at Dublin airport Friday morning as a result of delays at airport security. Aer Lingus said thirty-five of its passengers did not make their flights, while fifty Ryanair flyers missed theirs.
Ryanair said some passengers were waiting up to forty-five minutes to pass through security.
It has called on the airport authorities to investigate reports that security staff are operating on “a work to rule” basis.
The Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU), however, said that industrial action involving airport security in any shape or form had not been sanctioned by the union.
The Dublin Airport Authority said airport security was working at full capacity as of Saturday and added it was unaware of any industrial action. A spokeswoman also said that some passengers were not leaving the necessary time for checking in.
