Airline/Airport/Travel questions and queries

smurfjed

Have a look at seatguru.com, enter the flight number and it will show you the aircraft type and IFE configuration.

Mortelaro

smurfjed wrote: »

Have a look at seatguru.com, enter the flight number and it will show you the aircraft type and IFE configuration.

Subject to change!

Neilw

Hi,

Anyone know which aircraft is operating the EI-0145 to LAX today?

Thanks

Inquitus

Neilw wrote: »

Hi,

Anyone know which aircraft is operating the EI-0145 to LAX today?

Thanks

EI-DUO
Airbus A330-202

Neilw

Inquitus wrote: »

EI-DUO
Airbus A330-202

That was it, nice flight. Felt much shorter than the 10.5 hours it took.

Garlinge

Is there any way of knowing ahead of arriving at airport, which terminal your flight is actually departing from? the last two aer Lingus flights have actually left from Terminal 1. I could do without the extra trek from 2 to 1 airside.

Locker10a

Garlinge wrote: »

Is there any way of knowing ahead of arriving at airport, which terminal your flight is actually departing from? the last two aer Lingus flights have actually left from Terminal 1. I could do without the extra trek from 2 to 1 airside.

You could check the Dublin Airport app, this often has the gate info before the terminal screens. But not necessarily a long way in advance but most likely an hour before or maybe more. If it’s an early morning flight sometimes the gate will show on then app the night before obviously subject to change

VG31

Gates are shown three hours in advance in the Dublin Airport app.

Spanish Eyes

What the heck is so bad about the middle seat? Someone has to sit there. I've no problem with the middle on short haul, but if on my own I guess the middle on a long haul would be a pain.

I loved the AL two, four two configuration, I am sure they still have these aircraft running, but not sure of the names.

Will use seatguru for next year's Washington/San Antonio trip. Thanks for the tip.

Garlinge

Thks for info about D Airport app, I dont have it on phone. Now struggle to get a boarding pass barcode on Aer Lingus App... had to print page instead. I suppose hotel will oblige when returning, dont want to be bother with techie stuff at some machine in airport.

Chris_5339762

Thinking of flying Cork - Prague next year via Zurich.

Anyone any experience of what the immigration/security is like for these? IIRC there was nothing at all when I flew from Dublin, but want to make sure.

Its advertised with a 45min connection which I'm sure should be achievable (Hand luggage only) but just want to check.

Of course its a 14 hour overnight layover on the way back which is a nuisance but anyway.

Podge_irl

You won't need to re-clear security in Zurich if that is your question. Passport control is generally quite quick but 45 min won't leave a lot of wiggle room.

davepatr07

Hi there,

Wasn't too sure to ask this in Travel or here, but would anyone know which gates Lufthansa's first Frankfurt flight of the day at 5:15am (LH 983) flies out of in Dublin?

Is it the A or B gates?

Cheers

goingnowhere

Dublin doesn't have A or B gates

Gate 304/5/6 normally, just behind security in T1

davepatr07

Thanks, still thinking of the airport in the past. So Pier B then.

forestlover

Any suggestions for what seats to choose for a super nervous flyer on the DUB - MIA route? Looking forward to the trip, travelling via Miami to Costa Rica with aerlingus and AA but am deathly afraid of flying, long haul will be the test of endurance

Captain_Crash

forestlover wrote: »

Any suggestions for what seats to choose for a super nervous flyer on the DUB - MIA route? Looking forward to the trip, travelling via Miami to Costa Rica with aerlingus and AA but am deathly afraid of flying, long haul will be the test of endurance

Answered in another thread...

forestlover

Thanks Captain Crash! Actually deleted it from the other thread as thought it was more appropriate here, but seems like it was still seen

Captain_Crash

forestlover wrote: »

Thanks Captain Crash! Actually deleted it from the other thread as thought it was more appropriate here, but seems like it was still seen

Have a safe trip and enjoy the flight... you'll love it.

Duff

Hey guys.

Flying to Las Vegas next month via Heathrow. I have 1hr 15mins to get my connecting flight to Las Vegas from Dublin in Heathrow. I'm flying into terminal 2 and out of terminal 3. Is this enough time to get to terminal 3 from 2?

Thanks.

MJohnston

Duff wrote: »

Hey guys.

Flying to Las Vegas next month via Heathrow. I have 1hr 15mins to get my connecting flight to Las Vegas from Dublin in Heathrow. I'm flying into terminal 2 and out of terminal 3. Is this enough time to get to terminal 3 from 2?

Thanks.

It'd be really pushing it, and you'd have to be very lucky with Heathrow.

Presuming if you're talking about LHR T3 then you're getting VS 155. Which means you're probably talking about EI164 from DUB, given the timings you mentioned.

EI164 has an average arrival delay of 10-20 minutes according to FlightAware.

Then you've got at least 10 minutes for the transfer bus journey, but you'd have to be lucky that it was waiting promptly for your flight's arrival. This is often not the case, and iirc, they wait for the rest of the flight to deplane before letting connections passengers depart through the rear exit of the plane.

Then once you arrive at T3, you have to go through security again, and Heathrow is never pleasant.

I'd go as far as to say that on an average day, you won't make that connection. Arrange an earlier flight from DUB, imo.

crisco10

MJohnston wrote: »

It'd be really pushing it, and you'd have to be very lucky with Heathrow.

Presuming if you're talking about LHR T3 then you're getting VS 155. Which means you're probably talking about EI164 from DUB, given the timings you mentioned.

EI164 has an average arrival delay of 10-20 minutes according to FlightAware.

Then you've got at least 10 minutes for the transfer bus journey, but you'd have to be lucky that it was waiting promptly for your flight's arrival. This is often not the case, and iirc, they wait for the rest of the flight to deplane before letting connections passengers depart through the rear exit of the plane.

Then once you arrive at T3, you have to go through security again, and Heathrow is never pleasant.

I'd go as far as to say that on an average day, you won't make that connection. Arrange an earlier flight from DUB, imo.

Would agree with this assessment. And with LHR it's easy to get an earlier flight, they basically go every hour (at least).

Duff

MJohnston wrote: »

It'd be really pushing it, and you'd have to be very lucky with Heathrow.

Presuming if you're talking about LHR T3 then you're getting VS 155. Which means you're probably talking about EI164 from DUB, given the timings you mentioned.

EI164 has an average arrival delay of 10-20 minutes according to FlightAware.

Then you've got at least 10 minutes for the transfer bus journey, but you'd have to be lucky that it was waiting promptly for your flight's arrival. This is often not the case, and iirc, they wait for the rest of the flight to deplane before letting connections passengers depart through the rear exit of the plane.

Then once you arrive at T3, you have to go through security again, and Heathrow is never pleasant.

I'd go as far as to say that on an average day, you won't make that connection. Arrange an earlier flight from DUB, imo.

Thank you, and yikes! Yes we're getting EI164 into terminal 2 (12pm 1:30pm) and then VS155 from terminal 3 (2:45PM) to Las Vegas. I had looked online and it said it was only a 15 minute walk between terminals but I must've searched the wrong thing. I'm not sure I can change to an earlier flight as I booked it as part of a package. I'll get in contact with the booking company and hopefully they can help

MJohnston

It is indeed only about a 15 minute walk - but the walk is landside, not airside, so you 'exit' the airport at T2 (with all the time that would take), then you've got the 15 minute walk through the underground walkways, then you arrive in T3 and have to go through security, find your gate etc.

The flight connections bus is a bit quicker, but not by much.

Mortelaro

If it's all one pnr booking,while its tight you are protected and will get a free move to the later flight if there is one if you are too late
Don't spend any money changing
The bus will easily get you there in time in my opinion if you disembark EI with an hour to spare and have your boarding passes

No loitering in T3 though, go straight to your gate

MJohnston

Mortelaro wrote: »

If it's all one pnr booking,while its tight you are protected and will get a free move to the later flight if there is one if you are too late
Don't spend any money changing
The bus will easily get you there in time in my opinion if you disembark EI with an hour to spare and have your boarding passes

No loitering in T3 though, go straight to your gate

Disagree very strongly with "the bus will easily get you there in time".

Worth noting that Heathrow themselves recommend a 75 minute connection time, minimum, for T2 to T3. That means you're utterly at the mercy of every little thing going right. Relying on not having any arrival delay to LHR is taking a massive risk imo.

It's grand saying you'll get a free change to a later flight if you miss one, but there's only 1 LAS flight from LHR per day by Virgin, so you'd be losing an entire day from your trip.

Find out what the change fee is for the earlier DUB-LHR flight, and make a choice based on the cost of that. I can't imagine it would be too expensive, considering how many of those flights there are per day.

Mortelaro

If you have an hour the bus will be less than 15 mins
Then you re clear security
If you show your boarding pass to the supervisors you will skip the security queue and be led to the front
It is tight,no doubt about that

Theres only 1 flight a day,so you'd have to be asking for to be put on a flight to lax connecting to Vegas if you miss it and don't want to wait to the next day

Theres absolutely no need to be paying change fees

Mortelaro

EI 164 was 20 mins early today,it seems

LXFlyer

Mortelaro wrote: »

EI 164 was 20 mins early today,it seems

No it wasn’t.

Once again I need to point out that there are two completely different timing events being compared here.

The scheduled time is the time the aircraft is scheduled to arrive on stand, while the actual time quoted is the time it landed on the runway, which takes no account of the time taken to taxi to the arrival stand. At Heathrow, depending on the wind and the runway used, that can be quite long.

It’s like comparing apples with oranges - and the sites ought to make this clear.

MJohnston

LXFlyer wrote: »

No it wasn’t.

Once again I need to point out that there are two completely different timing events being compared here.

The scheduled time is the time the aircraft is scheduled to arrive on stand, while the actual time quoted is the time it landed on the runway, which takes no account of the time taken to taxi to the arrival stand. At Heathrow, depending on the wind and the runway used, that can be quite long.

It’s like comparing apples with oranges - and the sites ought to make this clear.

Which presumably means that FlightAwares calculated average delay of 10-20 minutes is actually maybe more like 30-40 minutes?