Radar problem at Dublin airport causes continued delays

Flight delays that began on Wednesday continue at Dublin’s international airport, but are not as severe as they were when the problems with air traffic control radar were first discovered.

The most recent statement issued by the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) reported that the airport’s operational capacity had risen to 80 per cent, meaning that air traffic control would be able to deal with demand during most of the day, but that delays were likely at peak traffic times.

Most delays now have been reduced to 15-45 minutes, although a Ryanair flight from Venice experienced a delay in landing of more than an hour. Flights from other originating points were also delayed, including Atlanta, Berlin, Brussels, Cardiff, Copenhagen, Exeter, Frankfurt, Prague and Paris.

The airport’s information screens showed departure delays of 15-60 minutes on more than a dozen flights through mid day. Two flights were even more significantly delayed. A flight Orlando, Florida was showing a delay of more than six hours and a flight to Gdansk, Poland, was delayed for nearly four hours.

Flybe’s scheduled departure to Exeter, on BE304, was showing a delay of two and a half hours on the information board.

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