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Passengers at Dublin Airport had to queue outside the terminal building on Saturday morning.
Images posted on social media showed passengers queuing outside Terminal 1 while large queues were also photographed inside.
In an early morning tweet, Dublin Airport operator DAA said it was “currently filtering passengers into the terminal buildings in an orderly manner to join check in & security queues which are moving”.
The operator of the airport thanked passengers for their co-operation and patience “at this extremely busy time of the morning in advance of the first wave of departures”.
The airport said passengers were heeding advice to arrive to the airport up to three and a half hours before departure.
“This resulted in us having to stagger the flow of passengers into the terminals which was well managed by airport police.”
The queues came ahead of a large wave of early morning flights with many passengers travelling abroad at the start if the school Easter holidays.
Ryanair group chief executive Michael O’Leary called for the army personnel to be called in particularly in the next three weekends to do the pat-downs and call-throughs and free up security staff to use the x-ray machines.
Speaking on Countrywide on RTÉ he said in the coming weeks there was the “big annual Haj of the Easter school holidays with lots of families coming through the airport”.
On Friday DAA said long security queues at Dublin airport on Friday morning were partly as a result of passengers arriving “significantly earlier” than their flight departure times.
Graeme McQueen, media relations manager at DAA on Friday thanked passengers for heeding its advice to arrive up to three and-a-half hours ahead of their scheduled departure slot.
“In the days and weeks to come, adhering to this advice, rather than arriving at the airport much earlier, will help passengers get through security screening as quickly as possible,” he added.
The recent delays at Dublin Airport have been attributed to a shortage of security staff following the collapse of international travel during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The shortage of security screening staff is the main reason for the current issues. While there have been no constraints on recruitment - more than 100 new security staff have already been recruited so far this year - DAA is re-doubling its efforts to more staff,” Mr McQueen said on Friday.
Some 250 candidates were invited for interview this week, with almost 100 of those candidates to receive employment offers.
“Bringing recruits into the operation had been delayed recently by the requirement for enhanced background checks for aviation workers which came into effect on January 1st this year. Thankfully, however, this logjam is now easing.”
DAA is also exploring other short-term options to increase security staff numbers, including identifying former security screening staff who are now in different roles in the company, and temporarily re-assigning a number of Cork-based staff to Dublin.
The company recently faced political backlash about the pay rates it was offering to prospective staff, which were in the €14-€21 per hour range.
It also emerged that it was seeking security staff to be available for 40 hours per week, while they were only being guaranteed 20 hours’ work with a minimum weekly salary of €283.