Dublin routes news and general chat

Stuttgart seasonal service operated until end of summer 2018. There was one year it operted year round but loads were bad, good in summer. It never connected with T/A schedules. Ryanair started a daily service around Oct 2017 so EI exited for 2019 summer season.

In typical FR fashon they fell out with STR just like FRA and MUC and all routes ended.

EI kept the route for 8 years, I think there is a reasoable chance it will return.

Does JetBlue still have a close relationship with Aer Lingus? Where does this fit in that relationship?

Will they continue to codeshare and feed each others short haul networks?

For clarity, they're offering service on an A321neo.

Hot food will be available to Mint passengers, but you're correct – those in the cheap seats will only have cold options.

That's a bit disappointing. Hopefully it's a temporary restriction.

Yes. Something EI were meant to reintroduce but haven't.

Was certainly true of Delta, they had some of their oldest metal 757's with the non-vacuum toilets! However the increasing wealth of the country and the large corporate demand make Dublin very profitable for most carriers these days.

From observation on a previous trip, I think the CBP were concerned at people taking food that would not be allowed to be imported to the USA. People in front of me told the officer that they had sandwiches but they were jam. 😁

There is probably detail on the relevant website.

I was made throw away a Boots sandwich that I'd literally just bought at the airport to eat at my gate (because there was so little past CBP at the time) before. CBP can be very anal about things when they want to be.

How is the DUB-KEF route fairing for PLAY? Obviously an LCC but are they doing any cargo?

Could be another two years. Current status is daa have to return documents and information requests to Fingal and Noise competent authority. They have six months to do this from the 16th Feb 2024. It will then have the be reviewed. If Fingal approve, it’s extremely likely this decision will be appealed by the NIMBYs and have to go through the process for An Bord Planeala adding further delays. Rumours Juneyao wanted to come in this year also but went to Brussels / Man instead.

Cathay won’t be back until the cap is lifted, and besides, Cathay have their own issues at the moment so not necessarily the cap holding them back.

Cap makes it increasingly difficult for anything to be added in the short term. I saw on a group this afternoon that American Airlines are restarting Charlotte in February next year. It was March this year. 2025 will have a month extra of the service.

I’m not sure on Singapore, but I have a vague memory of restrictions on 28L10R being a factor in MAN getting the Singapore-MAN- Houston, rather than DUB, at the time, open to correction on that. If I have recalled that correctly, it would be a true example of what’s ahead, e.g. routes lost to the cap, may not come back when it’s lifted as they’ve already established a good thing elsewhere.

The A359 can get off a wet 28L/10R at MTOW so that isn’t a factor for SIA.

The cap is likely to be damaging to the national economy for quite some time by the looks of it unfortunately.

Yes, discussed here last week, but for some reason posters put it in threads other than the Dublin Routes one. 🤔

Rumour on the ramp, I know I know, is that BA Euroflyer will take over the Gatwick later this year when they have spare aircraft.

Yes TUI call it this. The argument about its name was done to death on social media when they first announced its use a few years ago. They use it specifically to connect in to their cruises out of Port Canaveral. I think they get a better deal from the airport to use it.

For the 10am announcement, yea I would of thought EI would do their own PR. Would be great if it was something out of the blue and possibly serve potential traffic demand… Air India or Vistara, to Mumbai or Delhi, Singapore Airlines to Singapore, LATAM to Sao Paolo, even dare I say it… Qantas to Perth… It would certainly add more competition to the ME 3 carriers… You only have to look back at this article to understand anything is possible… https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/kenny-jacobs-world-airlines-want-to-come-to-dublin-airport-but-a-passenger-cap-means-we-are-turning-them-away/a1121732715.html

Air India and Vistara are now merged. Do think we’ll see AI in Dublin, prob with a Delhi service once they have the available airframes…

You've just made me realise while reading your post that it must be the new food outlet they've been building in T2 arrivals. O'Briens sandwiches and whatever other brands they're paired with, they're always called 'An Oasis of taste'.

Well if they wanted to piss off QR they certainly would.

Not doing any harm to post the odd new route for knock now is it? Not as if there’s new routes announced every day.