Dublin Airport officially opened at 9:00am on January 19, 1940. It was a cold Friday morning when the inaugural flight - an Aer Lingus Lockheed 14 bound for Liverpool - departed from Collinstown Airport, as it was then known.
Work on the original terminal began in the late 1930's. The curved building with its tiered floors was designed to echo the lines of a great ocean liner and won many architectural awards for its design. This original terminal building was designed to cater for just 100,000 passengers a year.
By the late 1950s, the original terminal was incapable of handling growing passenger numbers, so the new North Terminal was opened in June 1959.
By the 1960s, new departure gate piers were added adjacent to the old terminal to cope with larger aircraft. However it soon it became apparent that the original terminal building could no longer cope with passenger demand. Work began in 1971 on a new terminal building designed to cater for an expected six million passengers per year. The new £10 million terminal opened in June 1972.
In November 2010, Dublin Airport's Terminal 2 and its connected boarding gate pier were opened. The award-winning new terminal will allow the airport to handle more than 30 million passengers per year.
More than 400 million passengers have travelled through Dublin Airport since that first flight took off in 1940. The old terminal, which is a listed building, is still partially used for daily passenger operations and many of the internal design features of the building have been retained as a reminder of those early days of aviation.
In order to log this virtual cache:
Attach a time/date stamped photo in front of the original terminal building (pictured above) with a simple thumbs up or your GPS.
You can also take a selfie, however this is NOT a requirement.
Alternative to time/date stamp use a dated receipt, ticket, paper or boarding pass.
If you are a tourist please mention in your log where you are travelling from.
There is no need to email photo for approval.
Several finders have sent photos direct by message on being informed that the uploaded photo DID NOT contain the original terminal. Some logs still display those photos.
Beware, if travelling through US Visa pre-clearance it is almost impossible to get the required photo from within the terminal afterwards. If time permits its best to do photo first.
A photo without the time/date element does NOT satisfy the requirements for logging.
Logs deleted to date have not included some part of the original terminal.
Virtual Rewards 2.0 - 2019/2020
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between June 4, 2019 and June 4, 2020. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 2.0 on the Geocaching Blog.
Congratulations to Pimpsy for getting FTF.