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Fliplot wrote:Is the Dublin / Vienna route so price sensitive that only Lauda offer services?
dstc47 wrote:A very weird event at Dublin Airport. A minibus was hi-jacked, with passengers onboard.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/01 ... n-arrests/
JAmie2k9 wrote:Fliplot wrote:Is the Dublin / Vienna route so price sensitive that only Lauda offer services?
Aer Lingus fly daily in summer and 4-5weekly in winter but appears to take a break for next few weeks.
OA260 wrote:Willie Walsh to step down as IAG chief executive
Former Aer Lingus chief will retire in June but step aside from board in March
Willie Walsh has announced plans to retire as chief executive of International Airlines Group (IAG) in March.
kstse wrote:Noticed something interesting in the new Northern Ireland "A New Decade, A New Approach" agreement. "The Irish Government also intends to take forward a review of the potential for Government support to renewed viable air routes from Cork to Belfast and Dublin to Derry in the near future!
BDKLEZ wrote:kstse wrote:
A BHD-SNN doesn't make any sense, even if to connect with EI TATL from there. Given that the road between Belfast and Dublin is now a motorway for the vast majority of the journey (of ca. 90mins), it is much easier to drive to Dublin and pick up your US bound bird from there. Further, with at least an hourly bus service between the two cities 24 hours per day in each direction, life couldn't be easier.
BDKLEZ wrote:
Personally, I've always thought it was a shame that a BHD-ORK never really seemed to work for anyone. I could see a XXX-ORK-BHD vv W-route on Stobart being rather successful, assuming Stobart overnight an a/c elsewhere other than DUB. Or do Stobart themselves have a base at ORK in which case that would simplify the deal.
johhnieonion wrote:Is it likely there'll ever be a DUB-BKK direct route?
johhnieonion wrote:Is it likely there'll ever be a DUB-BKK direct route?
IrishTexan wrote:Flew DUB/LDY/DUB several times back in 1989/90 on EI Commuter Saab340 and can remember some flights where I was the only passenger. More relaxed times back then resulted in this av. geek being invited to the jumpseat for landing at LDY on one of those lone passenger flights. Happy times.
IrishTexan wrote:Flew DUB/LDY/DUB several times back in 1989/90 .
shamrock350 wrote:The new Aer Lingus uniform looks set to be revealed on the 15th, not publicly confirmed by the airline but invitations going out.
VFRonTop wrote:Basically, EI can make more money operating their A330s to North American destinations and TG can make more money (lose less money) flying to other European destinations.
For comparison Skoot, Singapore's LLC flew 79k+ bi-directional passengers between Athens and Singapore in 2018 on a twice weekly service. DUB-SIN had around 35k+ bi-directional O&D in '18
dstc47 wrote:Links between Cork and Belfast are not strong, indeed with the long period of unrest, many have never been in the North and Brexit is not likely to encourage them. Business travel is probably only capable of supporting a very small demand and yet would presumably demand double daily service to allow day trips. Hard to make money that way.
Skyblue39 wrote:I was recently on LH2518 MUC-DUB. The door closed and as passengers were in the aisle making their way towards the back of the aircraft to get seated, the plane pushed back and cabin crew started shouting at pax to quickly take their seats.
I was astonished to see something like this happen, the problem then is that at the back all the space in the overhead bins was full. And there were at least 6 pax still yet go reach their seat. The cabin crew were very rude and shouting..... entirely not the fault of the pax. I was not expecting something like this with Lufthansa.
shamrock350 wrote:
Speaking of Munich, Ryanair has dropped DUB-MUC this year leaving it to Aer Lingus and Lufthansa.
VFRonTop wrote:Skoot, Singapore's LLC flew 79k+ bi-directional passengers between Athens and Singapore in 2018 on a twice weekly service. DUB-SIN had around 35k+ bi-directional O&D in '18
VFRonTop wrote:Basically, EI can make more money operating their A330s to North America.
VFRonTop wrote:... while BKK is a popular destination with around 60k+ bi-directional O&D that is barely enough for a 2 weekly service.
BrianDromey wrote:There is no doubt that long-haul low cost is a very difficult market to make money in.
planemanofnz wrote:O&D would not be the main market with SIN - DUB though - it would be transits, particularly passengers to Australasia.
... SQ Group has a big advantage in both Australasia and Southeast Asia over the ME3
planemanofnz wrote:Again, O&D is one thing, but I think connections also add to the piece. In BKK's case, EI could actually offer connectivity to both a) North America (JFK - BKK via DUB is shorter than via LHR, FRA, NRT, DXB etc) and b) regional UK (e.g. MAN is one of the biggest unserved markets for BKK, and EI is not insignificant at MAN).
VFRonTop wrote:I’d be curious to read your thoughts as to what advantage SQ have over the EU3 and ME3 in capturing connections to Aus et al?
VFRonTop wrote:That’s a lot of reliance on connecting traffic that is already being captured by EK, QR, EY, CX, TK, BA, LH, KL, and all the rest.
planemanofnz wrote:I'm talking primarily about:
1. Frequencies (e.g. in New Zealand, SQ has up to 6 flights a day, compared to EK's 3, QR's 1 and EY's nil).
2. Destinations (SQ Group can take you to places like OOL, CNS, DRW, WLG etc, that an ME3 simply can't).
planemanofnz wrote:No different to EI capturing connections to the US from places like FCO, FRA, CDG etc, being captured before by BA, KL, etc?
ChrisNH38 wrote:I've been pretty impressed to see that the A321 running SNN-BOS has pretty much gone without a hiccup. Ever since it started, I don't think more than a few flights have been canceled. EI-LRA doing a good job.
EI321 wrote:Does anyone know why Boeing have put up billboards around the exit roads at DUB? They just show the Boeing logo, nothing else.