Irish Examiner View: Airport chaos has us falling off cloud nine

Air travel has become a wretched consumer experience, and technology isn't the panacea that some believe it to be.

Thousands of passengers in Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport as Aer Lingus flights scheduled to depart to and from Dublin Airport were cancelled, due to an ongoing IT problem at the airline. Picture: Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie

In recent years, much effort has been expended on the transfer to cloud-based network technologies.

Software as a service, infrastructure as a service, and as many acronyms as you can shake a length of old-fashioned cabling at, have been proclaimed as the future.