Dublin Airport’s new gateway to the U.S. opens this week

U.S. Immigration/customs set to clear all travelers in Dublin

PATRICK BLACK,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Monday, November 15, 2010, 5:14 AM

Updated Monday, November 15, 2010, 5:14 AM

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Terminal 2 building, Dublin Airport

Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2, which will see its first flight land this Friday, cost €1.2billion and is set to be the last sight many Irish emigrants see as numbers of people leaving the country accelerate in the next few years.

The new Pascall + Watson-designed second terminal is expected to 400 new jobs in the retail outlets based there, a fraction of the number of people likely to leave Ireland because of unemployment.

T2 will be handling all Aer Lingus flights and the flights of the four American airlines operating out of Dublin.

And Aer Lingus, according to a Bloomberg report, will try to compete with those four U.S. airlines by offering them the ability to pass through U.S. customs and immigration in Dublin, thus allowing them to walk straight into the U.S. once they land.

Aer Lingus will start operating out of T2 on November 23 and will clear all U.S. passengers in Dublin by the first quarter of next year, Aer Lingus’s chief commercial officer Stephen Kavanagh said.

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bogsidebunny | Nov 16, 2010, 01:23 AM EST

It doesn't take a very intuitive person to hop in a lifeboat when the waters lapping over the gunnels. It's a chapter right out of Darwin's book: "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". The smartest and most educated will wind up in America and the mediocre tradesmen and women in the UK. It happened many times in the past and, as we all know but refuse to accept, history repeats itself!

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Searlit | Nov 15, 2010, 07:49 PM EST

This is a very pessimistic attitude, I don't know why so many of the articles, lately, keep mentioning the amount of people emigrating from Ireland and how it's expected to increase. It's seems strange that anyone on either side of the Atlantic would think this was something to be encouraged or touted about.

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palmeiras | Nov 15, 2010, 07:00 PM EST

More of the centralised b.s.operating in Ireland right now-where everything goes to dirty dublin-the most unfriendly excuse of a city i was ever in. Plus it's a total rip off, people are rude and crime rates are through the roof; avoid it like the plaque. Compare this to Shannon where the opposite is true and where the Real Ireland begins and ends. It is Shannon that should have gotten the new terminal not west britain.

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aomiller | Nov 15, 2010, 01:40 PM EST

"Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2 . . . is set to be the last sight many Irish emigrants see as numbers of people leaving the country accelerate in the next few years." B'Jayzus, but there's enough pessimism in that lede sentence to sour milk!!! Be careful what you wish for . . . you might get it! tony

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IrishFlair | Nov 15, 2010, 10:57 AM EST

I would be interested in the numbers of people put to work because of the building of this new terminal as well. If you are going to list the retail job numbers, why not list the number of jobs the new terminal created in order to be built in the first place?

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