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Re: Irish 2/23: Cleared takeoff and rolling ...

Golfers teed off with noise and fumes from Dublin Airport’s new runway Golf clubs in shadow of north runway say many players are considering cancelling their memberships https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/02/02/golfers-teed-off-with-noise-and-fumes-from-dublin-airports-new-runway/ Good for spot...

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Re: Irish 2/23: Cleared takeoff and rolling ...

I have commenced my cheapskate express trip to Australia, First leg on EI154 DUB-LHR on the 321LR, pleasant experience however a few niggles include cloth seats starting to look tired, crumbs on some seats and my cheese and ham toasty was not entirely heated. Would not hesitate to use them on longe...

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Re: Irish 2/23: Cleared takeoff and rolling ...

Thanks for a new thread . Do we know how many aircraft currently have the mis matched livery on the engines? Just seems there are more then before. It’s improved recently, all the new livery A333s had been corrected last year but G-EILA came back from winter maintenance with a white inboard cowling...

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Re: Irish 2/23: Cleared takeoff and rolling ...

Thanks for a new thread . Do we know how many aircraft currently have the mis matched livery on the engines? Just seems there are more then before.

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Re: Turkish Aviation February 2023

Thanks for a new thread I think lots of people complain on social media its not just TK . Read most airlines FB/Twitter feeds and people are complaining about delayed flights , lost bags or delays in refunds etc...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

https://www.irelandwestairport.com/news ... aer-lingus

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

https://www.breakingnews.ie/amp/ireland ... 25919.html

The residents group seem to object to anything these days.

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Re: Spain Aviation - 2023

Does anyone know what the plans for Canaryfly are? Before Covid they had quite a few aircraft and flights between the Canary islands, especially after absorbing the Air Europa fleet and flights. During Covid they didn't fly at all for several months. And now they seem to have only about 3 ATR72 fly...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

nickya340 wrote:
https://twitter.com/seanm1997/status/1620026023546097670?s=46&t=jPjzaCBm9wv2v3QzDPulYQ

Emerald to launch BHD-EMA, a previous flybe route

Great news hopefully they can mop up more thank god it was not peak season.

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Ryanair posts third quarter profit of €211m Airline says passenger traffic in period rose 24pc to 38.4 million https://www.independent.ie/business/ryanair-posts-third-quarter-profit-of-211m-42318511.html Some healthy figures from Ryanair. -- Aer Lingus staff vote for 10pc pay deal by small margin ht...

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Re: Flybe News and Discussion Thread

Disagree. ALL this awful airline did was harm the commercials of viable competitors. They brought nothing to the market. Bingo and the staff were lambs to the slaughter from day one. Staff who move to new jobs in a more stable airline will in fact be better off and redundancy will be a good thing i...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Indeed totally predictable and they lasted longer then I thought. At least its not a peak season collapse so damage limited. The staff will find plenty of other industry jobs and the passengers will not be shafted anymore. Now let EIR continue to run a reliable service from BHD and other regional ai...

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Re: Flybe News and Discussion Thread

Sadly this is good news they were a nightmare.

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

New Aer Lingus advert; https://youtu.be/WpZealrSwTg Quite sweet. Not sure the new tagline will work in other contexts but it’s a nice play on the traditional Aer Lingus welcome. Very telling that is focuses entirely on the staff being the difference rather than the product. Bit boring to be honest ...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Shannon Airport passenger numbers triple to 1.5 million Numbers for last year represents 88pc of the pre-Covid level https://www.independent.ie/business/shannon-airport-passenger-numbers-triple-to-15-million-42307953.html Good news for SNN I can see them getting another TATL seasonal for next year p...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belf ... 067680.amp

Another new Summer route for BFS .

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

https://www.derryjournal.com/news/peopl ... ay-3996845

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Swissport staff at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports will tomorrow finish voting on a new 10pc pay deal that they have been offered. https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/aviation-bosses-hope-10pc-pay-rise-and-better-conditions-will-persuade-staff-to-stay-42303505.html Aer Lingus staff are also ...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Dublin-based aircraft lessor AerCap loses claim against Ryanair and Laudamotion over jet deliveries https://www.independent.ie/business/dublin-based-aircraft-lessor-aercap-loses-claim-against-ryanair-and-laudamotion-over-jet-deliveries-42303685.html I wonder how they thought they were really going t...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

The Aer Lingus BGI - MAN has just diverted to DUB due to heavy snow in MAN .

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2023/011 ... n-airport/

The IAA published details of the flight path earlier.

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

https://www.independent.ie/business/rya ... 96462.html

They are aiming to buy 25 new aircraft this year.

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

The new chief executive of Dublin and Cork airport operator, daa, will call for a reset of the system of regulation of passenger charges, when he appears before an Oireachtas committee tomorrow https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0117/1349239-new-daa-boss-calls-for-passenger-charges-system-reset/ ...

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Re: Cruise Ship / Ocean Liner Thread -2023

https://www.cnn.com/travel/amp/first-or ... index.html

It will be interesting to see the interiors and more importantly the price range .

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/202 ... nes-chief/

A great start for Emerald they are aiming to provide 250,000 connecting passengers to the Aer Lingus TATL network this year.

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

https://www.dublinairport.com/latest-ne ... rs-in-2022

Latest stats from Dublin Airport including a boost in December of 2.2m .

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

One of the next EI longhaul routes will most likely be West to a seasonal Wintersun destination . Interesting - Azores? Everyone I know who goes absolutely RAVES about it. Or we talking Caribbean? Hopefully not St. Lucia (kinda snore!), Barbados? Antigua? If it's not West Indies, it's only USA, and...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

One of the next EI longhaul routes will most likely be West to a seasonal Wintersun destination .

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

It was causing issues right from the start : Unexpected turbulence at Dublin Airport: seven passengers on inaugural flight from Ethiopia claim asylum https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/unexpected-turbulence-at-dublin-airport-seven-passengers-on-inaugural-flight-from-ethiopia-claim-asylum-313...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Just following on from comments regarding Ethiopian Airlines above, there had been talk of ET opening a service from DUB to ADD via MAN with 5th freedom rights, as per this parliamentary question on the Houses of the Oireachtas website: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-04-06/15/ I...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

LTU wasn't it that did it before on a seasonal basis, not for long, though they may have been able to combine the journeys with trips back to Germany. There are plenty of US points that could be much safer bets. Even the likes of Las Vegas, though would be quite leisure intensive and arguable lowes...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl ... ble-noise/

DAA have issued a statement also on their website

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Irish breakfast from the Bia menu . Free in Aer Space. Only one left from the earlier flight. No black pudding as advertised but its actually nicer especially from what I remember. Thanks for the pic! The black pudding is actually in the advertisement in the Bia menu - the white pudding is what has...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Irish breakfast from the Bia menu . Free in Aer Space.
Only one left from the earlier flight. No black pudding as advertised but its actually nicer especially from what I remember.

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

I see EI DEL is positioning DUB - SNN now .

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

There have also been immigration issues in the past so local authorities prefer remote stands for fuel stops . Once they are off the aircraft it poses an issue if passengers have "lost" their passports during the flight.

Pre clearance would be another headache.

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Re: Harry's New Book 'Spare': Scuffle between Harry and Willie

I guess all the juicy bits have been broadcast already and reading books is so last century. [emoji1787] Indeed Meghan wont get as much ££ as she wanted ;) This cost of living crisis is terrible lol Well.. According to this, it's the fastest selling 'non fiction' book ever https://www.independent.c...

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Re: Harry's New Book 'Spare': Scuffle between Harry and Willie

Its half price already lol https://i.ibb.co/wMSzhXD/F0-CEA07-B-E6-AB-4812-9588-21-DA442777-B6.jpg I guess all the juicy bits have been broadcast already and reading books is so last century. [emoji1787] Indeed Meghan wont get as much ££ as she wanted ;) This cost of living crisis is terrible lol

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Re: Spain Aviation - 2023

LupineChemist wrote:
I hope Binter starts to Madrid. Massive demand, they are on the Iberia Plus program and waaaay better than Iberia Express.

Id love to see the NT jets on MAD but probably unlikely unless they operate with a IB codeshare on their behalf.

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Re: Harry's New Book 'Spare': Scuffle between Harry and Willie

Its half price already lol

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Looks like there are some very good J fares ex DUB for Sept/Oct/Nov. Wonder if they will be honoured. At €454 return its unlikely .

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2023/0 ... last-year/

Good to see a strong return and very high passenger satisfactory scores.

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

None were loaded on my LGW flight today but they did have the new improved sausage and bacon roll which actually has improved ! Aer Space so no charge.

86 passengers with 3 pilots as one was training . Interesting take off and used the new runway.

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0109/13455 ... it-launch/

Not something you see everyday !

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

https://www.aerlingus.com/media/pdfs/BIA_Spring22.pdf

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Have EI completely abandoned menus on shothall flights. It seems a bit strange to be selling food, when you can't access the menu in-flight. They advise to download to your device and they usually have a few hard copies when coming through with the trolley. Its been in since Covid and I presume now...

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Re: Turkish Aviation January 2023

Currently in transit at IST, after arriving by TK78 from MIA earlier today. Was in business class and spent the entire flight sleeping (as I always do on these late TK departures) but snapped a handful of discrete photos upon boarding, when one of onboard chefs approached me and said ”unfortunately...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

Was reading a trip report on another site... Condor YYZ to FRA, operated by a Smartlynx 330 (ex-SQ) on lease. IFE was completely inop, however pax noted that they offered content which could be streamed to personal devices. :o :o :o :o Now .. If Condor can organise IFE to devices on an a/c that the...

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Re: New BA uniform

I’ll have what Air France are having, but want it for half the cost Someone at BA, probably. It was more like: I'd like to downgrade to what Ryan Air is having, and then can you please add some Political Correctness with a blend of generic because this BREXIT thing was truly a mistake! :cry2: Serio...

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Re: Irish 1/23: Dance one year in, kiss one goodbye

cc47 wrote:
It would appear that EI-DEF is the next to get the new Livery, with that aircraft having been in SNN for a few days now. EI-DEJ recently painted aswell

Great to see they are getting the new livery. As much as I liked the old livery for the few decades it now looks very tired.

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