Dublin airport new routes 2024

Curious where you heard this? The A124 carrying the locomotive set years ago is comparable to the MLW of an A388.

Yes it can taxi to T2....if there's a full ground stop for everyone else and there's no other aircraft on the adjacent gate. The outermost 300 gates CAN accommodate one in an emergency (the one Cathey always wanted in particular) but it would cause anarchy whilst on the move.

In an emergency one can come in yes, realistically it would use the North runway and be sent to the west apron if possible, but there'd be a ground stop in advance depending on which direction it came in on, it would need to backtrack to 16/34. In reality, any emergency serious enough where they're not going to go to EINN or EGCC means they're probably stopping on a runway anyway.

It varies depending on which day of the week it is.

it will probably be this week or next. It’ll be worded in a way that although the figure is likely to be ~ 33.5m, that over 1.5 million of that figure are transfer/ transit passengers thus remaining below the cap for 2023.

Great to see the a359 on this route so frequently this week.

If QR goes triple daily, Emirates won’t be too far behind either with a triple daily.

Ethihad CEO recently said all routes in Europe will become double daily in the near future as they re -expand. DUB was previously double daily so might not be too far away either. https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/airlines-lessors/ceo-interview-etihads-neves-outlines-plans-renewed-growth

The Government cannot overrule planning processes.

That passenger cap is annoying. It'd be great to get some directs to Brazil, Japan, India, Thailand and South Africa, transferring in mainland europe for asia is a pain when you have to spend so much money booking a decent seat. Much smaller airports like Helsinki, Brussels and Lisbon seem to have a better range of destinations.

They probably feel like they have enough hubs covered in Europe which is why we should really have aer lingus providing connectivity to the far east and south america

I thought the cap was 40 million? 2023 was probably 34mln? So I thought (perhaps incorrectly) it wasn’t an issue yet?

It seams all the new routes are to mid size us cities, like Denver is great and all but I think North america is well covered at this stage, we're missing connectivity with whole other continents

That’s down to Finnair maximising the potential of Finland’s geographic location, offering a one stop option to long haul destinations through Helsinki in much the same way as Aer Lingus are doing with their Dublin hub for North America.

Well...if every Irish Garth Brooks fan even used it once, it would be the busiest transatlantic route from Dublin....

Should be from Knock really 😁

A lot of you are looking at this with your green tinted glasses on in terms of simple O&D from Ireland.

• The likes of CLE, BDL and BNA, PIT (if they happen) are not targeting O&D Irish passengers. The plan here, I'm pretty certain, is tohave a model similar to PLAY/Icelandair shuttling pax between North America and Continental Europe.
• The Carribean is mostly targeting UK leisure passengers where there is a relatively mature market of that being a beach destination for them - the success of the BGI flight ex MAN bears this out. DUB in this instance would essentially be performing as a 3rd LHR runway in a similar manner to how they've used LGW for leisure flights.

Not sure about your first point, it’s no coincidence they fly to these places like BDL, CLE and the potential destinations we hear of like PIT BUF etc. All have sizable Irish American populations. Sure, it’s not the only reason but it would be a big factor for new route planning.

The new CLE flight during the summer had 90%+ loads, brilliant for a new route but it didn’t line up with many connecting flights as it didn’t land until 8am, of course you could connect to London or Paris for example but it would lead me to believe it was mostly O&D.