Pe@rson From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 18826 posts, RR: 54 Posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 1924 times:
Both under agreement with EI.
DUB-BOH: 6x weekly (from 1st May), by the AT7. Fares from £29.99 one-way incl. taxes. This route used to be operated by FR and had traffic up to around 80,000/year.
SNN-RNS: 1x weekly, seasonally (9th Jun-1st Sep), by the AT7.
Increases frequencies on nine services to ABZ, EDI, GLA, BLK, MAN, BHX, BRS, RNS.
EI564 From Ireland, joined May 2007, 351 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1453 times:
Quoting caaardiff (Reply 2): EI couldn't compete with competition from FR
That might be a bit harsh since EI does remain on the route at a double daily frequency, which is still reasonable. Interestingly though, while FR has reduced services on many routes from Dublin, Bristol is one of the few that has seen an increase (they went back up to 3 times a day when EI started the route). So, competition is working on that route and EI has had to pull back a little. It also flies to Cardiff twice a day (unlike FR), so EI still covers that area fairly well.
EI Regional seems to be doing very well overall. Up to 5 times a day on Glasgow now! FR has only cut capacity at Prestwick (its less than twice a day now).
The increase mentioned for BRS may refer to SNN or ORK?
tonymctigue From Ireland, joined Feb 2006, 1874 posts, RR: 10 Reply 4, posted (1 year 3 months 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 1143 times:
Good to see expansion for RE/EIR, particurarly at SNN which has seen its route network descimated in recent years since FR effectively pulled out. I know its a seasonal, once weelky service but it is to a new destination.
Quoting EI564 (Reply 3): The increase mentioned for BRS may refer to SNN or ORK?
I would say that is ORK-BRS. The SNN press release mentions increased frequency on SNN-EDI but nothing about SNN-BRS. It also mentions that a second aircraft will be based at SNN, resulting in an increase of 20 in the number of staff. My guess would be that most of these will be GWY based staff who will be transferred to SNN.
Sponsor Message: 
From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 18826 posts, 
From Ireland, joined Jul 2011, 243 posts, 
Printer friendly format 
