Daa cannot rule out travel chaos as witnessed in UK

Long queues for check-in at Dublin Airport recently. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

As the peak summer season begins, Dublin Airport Authority can't guarantee Irish holidaymakers won't be caught up in the same chaos which has hit British and European airports in the last 24 hours.

In Britain, Heathrow airport, which operates over 20 daily flights from Dublin, yesterday asked airlines to cut 10% of flights at two of its terminals while easyJet started cancelling thousands of summer flights.