Dublin routes news and general chat

L1011

When did airBaltic last serve Dublin? With the other Baltic states national carriers having imploded and half-arsedly replaced in Estonias case we're down to Ryanair and not even year-round at that. RIX is decently located for connections to the former USSR in general, TLL has decent tech industry and so on.

EchoIndia

L1011 wrote: »

When did airBaltic last serve Dublin? With the other Baltic states national carriers having imploded and half-arsedly replaced in Estonias case we're down to Ryanair and not even year-round at that. RIX is decently located for connections to the former USSR in general, TLL has decent tech industry and so on.

A quick search on Flickr shows the most recent images to be from 2012.

Jamie2k9

L1011 wrote: »

When did airBaltic last serve Dublin? With the other Baltic states national carriers having imploded and half-arsedly replaced in Estonias case we're down to Ryanair and not even year-round at that. RIX is decently located for connections to the former USSR in general, TLL has decent tech industry and so on.

They ended Riga late 2011 before briefly coming back in 2013 before ending it again. They served Vilnius for a season around 2010.

kevinandrew

AirBaltic would be an interesting return, they currently have quite ambitious growth plans with almost 80 aircraft expected to be in service over the next three years, a huge jump in capacity for an airline that has averaged about 30 aircraft over the past decade. The airline is currently implementing its next phase of expansion which will see it grow its network from all three home bases of Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius but with intense competition from Ryanair and Wizz, I think they've got a fight on their hands. 


Great airline to fly and the A220 is a superb addition to the fleet but with a profit of just €4.6m last year (compare that with Aer Lingus' €270m) they've got a long way to go before being in a comfortable position for the mega expansion planned.

Air Baltic said they will serve Dublin when they get more C series aircraft deliver in 2019/2”

Kcormahs

https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/281070/ethiopian-airlines-ends-los-angeles-service-in-mid-dec-2018/?fbclid=IwAR2YG0z9QvHmFC6rWYUMoM6tndUaoj93Da0_s1qd5yC9uEwfhjyLKgVfKgA

Ethiopian ends ADD-DUB-LAX in DEC2018

Shn99

Kcormahs wrote: »

https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/281070/ethiopian-airlines-ends-los-angeles-service-in-mid-dec-2018/?fbclid=IwAR2YG0z9QvHmFC6rWYUMoM6tndUaoj93Da0_s1qd5yC9uEwfhjyLKgVfKgA

Ethiopian ends ADD-DUB-LAX in DEC2018

ADD-DUB will continue but via MAD

Idbatterim

Is anything happening regarding an interlining agreement between Ryanair and Aer Lingus ? With say 7% growth this year and next , Dublin airport would have roughly 35,000,000 pax. I’d imagine that could jump another bit with an interlining agreement ...

Cloudio9

Shn99 wrote: »

ADD-DUB will continue but via MAD

Wonder what the business case for that route is

L1011

Between tourism, mineral exploration business and aid traffic they sell a fair few seats less price sensitive seats both ends of the plane DUB-ADD. Only competent carrier in that area of the continent

LiamaDelta

Cloudio9 wrote:

Wonder what the business case for that route is

I've been on it a couple of times and the Dublin sector has been quite busy. I've counted 80/90 people checking in.

kevinandrew

Ethiopian has re-opened ADD-DUB-LAX today, it will continue to operate at 4 weekly but without the local traffic rights between Dublin and Los Angeles.

Stephen Strange

kevinandrew wrote: »

Ethiopian has re-opened ADD-DUB-LAX today, it will continue to operate at 4 weekly but without the local traffic rights between Dublin and Los Angeles.

Appears to be operating as tech stop only. ADD-DUB not bookable either.

Noxegon

That's a shame if it holds. I was looking forward to using ET on my next trip to LA because the timings were far better for my needs than EI.

Captain_Crash

Cobalt have ceased business this evening, it was always nice seeing them in DUB and I always heard good things about them!

Cloudio9

LiamaDelta wrote: »

I've been on it a couple of times and the Dublin sector has been quite busy. I've counted 80/90 people checking in.

But now via MAD is what I meant.

Cloudio9

kevinandrew wrote: »

Ethiopian has re-opened ADD-DUB-LAX today, it will continue to operate at 4 weekly but without the local traffic rights between Dublin and Los Angeles.

What’s the logic there? It was never full when I flew it a few times and most of the J pax seemed to be doing dub lax.

homerjay2005

Noxegon wrote: »

That's a shame if it holds. I was looking forward to using ET on my next trip to LA because the timings were far better for my needs than EI.

and at 40-60% of the cost also. anybody know what will happen for sure, will the bookings be possible?

Ireland trains

ADD-DUB-LAX (4 weekly) no local rights DUB to LAX.
so 4 wkly ADD-DUB and 4 wkly DUB-ADD

ADD-MAD-DUB (4 weekly) no local rights MAD-DUB
all operated by 787-8

LiamaDelta

Ireland trains wrote: »

ADD-DUB-LAX (4 weekly) no local rights DUB to LAX.
so 4 wkly ADD-DUB and 4 wkly DUB-ADD

ADD-MAD-DUB (4 weekly) no local rights MAD-DUB
all operated by 787-8

Seems very unusual to add Dublin to the MAD routing when there is already a Dublin direct 4 times a week. Though maybe they want to scale up their tech stops in Dublin so that they have more redundancy in case of disruptions?

Stephen Strange

LiamaDelta wrote: »

Seems very unusual to add Dublin to the MAD routing when there is already a Dublin direct 4 times a week. Though maybe they want to scale up their tech stops in Dublin so that they have more redundancy in case of disruptions?

The ADD-DUB-LAX direct won't be letting pax on or off though, it's going to be a tech stop only

L1011

The only logic I can think of is that they need the space that DUB passengers are using for ADD passengers; with the MAD flight having spare capacity.

LiamaDelta

Stephen Strange wrote: »

The ADD-DUB-LAX direct won't be letting pax on or off though, it's going to be a tech stop only

As I understand it, they've only ended the 5th freedom between Dublin and LAX, so they'll let passengers off at Dublin when going from ADD-DUB-LAX and they'll take on passengers at Dublin on the return. They are just not taking passengers between DUB and LAX on each leg.

EDIT: had a look at the booking engine and no direct flights showing...so possibly you are right, even though they only alluded to no local rights on the DUB-LAX bit.

Stephen Strange

LiamaDelta wrote: »

As I understand it, they've only ended the 5th freedom between Dublin and LAX, so they'll let passengers off at Dublin when going from ADD-DUB-LAX and they'll take on passengers at Dublin on the return. They are just not taking passengers between DUB and LAX on each leg.

EDIT: had a look at the booking engine and no direct flights showing...so possibly you are right, even though they only alluded to no local rights on the DUB-LAX bit.

It has been turned into a techstop, like ET500 and ET502 (and the others), so will stay at the 600 stands with nobody embarking or disembarking.

ozzy jr

What plane will be used on the Madrid route?

EICVD

Stephen Strange wrote: »

It has been turned into a techstop, like ET500 and ET502 (and the others), so will stay at the 600 stands with nobody embarking or disembarking.

Grand, it’s a horrible flight to work on (clean & search), the new flight will be so much handier it’ll almost be a joy to work on.

Stephen Strange

EICVD wrote: »

Grand, it’s a horrible flight to work on (clean & search), the new flight will be so much handier it’ll almost be a joy to work on.

Oh, I'm as happy as you are :pac:

Chris_5339762

Captain_Crash wrote: »

Cobalt have ceased business this evening, it was always nice seeing them in DUB and I always heard good things about them!

They were ok. A bit better than Ryanair. 5 1/2 hours from Larnaca to Dublin with no IFE and paid sandwiches was a bit rough though.

Shame they're going though.

Noxegon

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

They were ok. A bit better than Ryanair. 5 1/2 hours from Larnaca to Dublin with no IFE and paid sandwiches was a bit rough though.

Try five hours and change from Paphos with Ryanair. Those seats start to hurt after about ninety minutes.

EICVD

Stephen Strange wrote: »

Oh, I'm as happy as you are :pac:

Are you working with that company that up until a month ago had the initials FC ?