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DublinPaul wrote:shamrock350 wrote:The thing is, it would be so easy for them to differentiate themselves but theres a blatant lack of interest, urgency or care in doing so.
The airline is, in a word, tired.
PhilipBass wrote:https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/girl-4-asks-to-move-house-due-to-constant-noise-from-dublin-airports-north-runway-42363089.html
emotive piece lacking on detail.
kaitak wrote:3/23 is up and running: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1481947
Just on the subject of EI, I have to say that I find a significant difference between EI and FR, even still. I just find it more relaxing. I like EI; I'm not bothered by the lack of creature comforts; I like the Bia menu and I find the crews nice. Sure, there's glitches that they could fix. I flew BA very recently from DUB-LHR-JER and back and while not a bad experience at all, I think EI have a better product on Y class short haul. On BA now, you get a small bottle of water and a very small packet of pretzels. That's it; no choice, or no option to buy anything. They were free, ok, but I think I'd prefer the option of buying something I like with EI. The only thing that really annoys me about EI is the rather threatening announcement about not filming/taking photos. It just comes across as a little hostile. Other than that, I'm fine with EI. They're doing their best against extremely tough competition.
OA260 wrote:kaitak wrote:EI's MAN based 321N, G-EIRH/EI-LRH returning to DUB
I saw it at MAN the other day and wondered when it was returning .
Jake801 wrote:OA260 wrote:kaitak wrote:EI's MAN based 321N, G-EIRH/EI-LRH returning to DUB
I saw it at MAN the other day and wondered when it was returning .
What's the story here? Are they not operating a previously planned route from MAN this year? Noted in last week's results that the MAN base was called out as "profitable" but no further detail. The Barbados route is often on tiktok and Youtube etc and the loads "look" light every time.
EK770 wrote:Can anyone show what were the flight paths in the original planning vs. what was initially implemented vs. what's currently used? How 'off' are they, and why is the DAA deviating from the paths in the original plan?
PhilipBass wrote:https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/girl-4-asks-to-move-house-due-to-constant-noise-from-dublin-airports-north-runway-42363089.html
Emotive piece lacking on detail.
Jake801 wrote:There's a good few maps at this site https://northrunway.exhibition.app/
IrishTexan wrote:Looks like AA have made equipment changes on flights from DUB to DFW,ORD and PHL. Operated by 789 to Sep.5, and now change to 788 from Sep.6 to the end of the season in late October. I'm pretty sure these flights were scheduled as 789 up until recently. Had been planning flights a few weeks ago and I'm pretty sure they had been offering 789 service when I did my earlier search.
Jake801 wrote:IrishTexan wrote:Looks like AA have made equipment changes on flights from DUB to DFW,ORD and PHL. Operated by 789 to Sep.5, and now change to 788 from Sep.6 to the end of the season in late October. I'm pretty sure these flights were scheduled as 789 up until recently. Had been planning flights a few weeks ago and I'm pretty sure they had been offering 789 service when I did my earlier search.
Where did you see the 789 operating? When I look online AA have 788 still.
ClassicLover wrote:Interesting news.
If you look at the British Airways Airways Avios Calculator -
https://www.britishairways.com/travel/flight-calculator/public/en_gb
When you put in Aer Lingus and select say DUB-LHR or DUB-JFK or whatever, it shows that you are awarded Avios... and Tier Points!
This will be a gamechanger for me if it's actually true.
For what it's worth, someone mentioned the information in that calculator is pulled from the table the system uses to award the actual figures to people's accounts. I'll be very curious to see if this is true and if it does... and whether we'll see some announcement about this.
Eirules wrote:Hopefully true. While it may not change my transatlantic flying (because I try to avoid EI), earning TPs on European flights would definitely help to retain BA Gold
BrianDromey wrote:I was going to post this. It should have a health warning for now, for two reasons.
1) The QR 'Basic' Business fare class was showing reduced earning earlier in the week. This was, apparently, an error and has since been fixed.
2) Standalone ORK-ACE, for example wouldn't be part of the AJB, as I understand it, so would not be expected to earn TP's unless EI becomes a oneworld or oneworld connect airline in their own right?
There hasn't been a non-oneworld airline in the AJB before, so while it is unusual for a non-oneworld airline to earn Tier points, the AJB does make provision for EI transatlantic flights to be integrated with other FFPs. BA might have decided that all EI flights count, rather than limiting EI earning to a certain flight range. I think EI 001 - EI199 would cover all transatlantic routes, for example? Ba have carved out inverse situations before, some of the LAN airlines didn't earn points on domestic flights due to regulatory concerns, as I recall.
ClassicLover wrote:Hopefully they were testing something that is indicating something is coming. Either way, for now, the status quo prevails and we continue to wait and see.
ClassicLover wrote:BrianDromey wrote:I was going to post this. It should have a health warning for now, for two reasons.
1) The QR 'Basic' Business fare class was showing reduced earning earlier in the week. This was, apparently, an error and has since been fixed.
2) Standalone ORK-ACE, for example wouldn't be part of the AJB, as I understand it, so would not be expected to earn TP's unless EI becomes a oneworld or oneworld connect airline in their own right?
There hasn't been a non-oneworld airline in the AJB before, so while it is unusual for a non-oneworld airline to earn Tier points, the AJB does make provision for EI transatlantic flights to be integrated with other FFPs. BA might have decided that all EI flights count, rather than limiting EI earning to a certain flight range. I think EI 001 - EI199 would cover all transatlantic routes, for example? Ba have carved out inverse situations before, some of the LAN airlines didn't earn points on domestic flights due to regulatory concerns, as I recall.
Well, checking the calculator this morning on the BA website shows all the Tier Points on EI are back to zero. Looks like someone was either testing something or they screwed something up.
To your second point thouigh. While I completely understand that short haul routes would not be part of the AJB, as they are not transatlantic routes, you would expect that there might be agreement between BA and EI to award Tier Points on all routes. I don't believe it necessarily has to wait for oneworld or oneworld Connect. They can make any agreement they like when it comes to that. I do agree though, that it's virtually unheard of for a non-alliance airline to earn TPs.
Hopefully they were testing something that is indicating something is coming. Either way, for now, the status quo prevails and we continue to wait and see.
BrianDromey wrote:I do think there is something going on behind the scenes. The re-alignment of fares from the winter schedule is a hint something is afoot. On the face of it oneworld connect seems the ideal solution for an airline obsessed with half baked solutions.
BangersAndMash wrote:I would guess testing. BA have made a number of positive changes lately, including allowing 2 for 1 vouchers to be used on IB and EI. Maybe IAG have finally realised that properly integrating their airlines is a win-win?
tibsthefox wrote:More drones, Ryanair 7700 near Belfast after holding at Dublin and above Belfast Intl, emergency fuel maybe?
eidvm wrote:tibsthefox wrote:More drones, Ryanair 7700 near Belfast after holding at Dublin and above Belfast Intl, emergency fuel maybe?
It’s getting beyond silly at this stage that this drone interference is still ongoing, and the Ryanair flight being forced into a fuel emergency situation just highlights how perilous these actions are.
Had anything gone wrong up in Belfast yesterday when that flight diverted such as another aircraft getting stuck on the runway or having its own emergency, a power cut at the airport or any other list of little things that could go wrong we’d likely be waking up today to news of 189 people killed in a plane crash.
The minister needs to get his act together, get a drone protection system in place and until then have a large Garda or army presence around the airport perimeter to deter or catch whoever is causing this dangerous interference.
ClassicLover wrote:BrianDromey wrote:I do think there is something going on behind the scenes. The re-alignment of fares from the winter schedule is a hint something is afoot. On the face of it oneworld connect seems the ideal solution for an airline obsessed with half baked solutions.
For sure, as they've been hiring roles with AJB mentioned in it for a while now. I won't mind oneworld connect, because it will allow EI to select certain partners (or those partners to select EI!), which will likely be AA, BA, AY, IB and hopefully one of the airlines that flies east. It could likely be QR which would conceivably be best here considering their coverage out of Doha.BangersAndMash wrote:I would guess testing. BA have made a number of positive changes lately, including allowing 2 for 1 vouchers to be used on IB and EI. Maybe IAG have finally realised that properly integrating their airlines is a win-win?
Fingers crossed!
nickya340 wrote:https://twitter.com/seanm1997/status/1631642296243351553?s=46&t=aNp7gdC5y4Niei2IG6OcgA
CFN-GLA is coming back. Wonder if it will be Saab 340 or Atr42?
nickya340 wrote:https://twitter.com/seanm1997/status/1631642296243351553?s=46&t=aNp7gdC5y4Niei2IG6OcgA
CFN-GLA is coming back. Wonder if it will be Saab 340 or Atr42?
eidvm wrote:Had anything gone wrong up in Belfast yesterday when that flight diverted such as another aircraft getting stuck on the runway or having its own emergency, a power cut at the airport or any other list of little things that could go wrong we’d likely be waking up today to news of 189 people killed in a plane crash.
Vicenza wrote:eidvm wrote:Had anything gone wrong up in Belfast yesterday when that flight diverted such as another aircraft getting stuck on the runway or having its own emergency, a power cut at the airport or any other list of little things that could go wrong we’d likely be waking up today to news of 189 people killed in a plane crash.
A bit overly dramatic seeing as BHD, only a few miles away, was available.
eidvm wrote:Vicenza wrote:eidvm wrote:Had anything gone wrong up in Belfast yesterday when that flight diverted such as another aircraft getting stuck on the runway or having its own emergency, a power cut at the airport or any other list of little things that could go wrong we’d likely be waking up today to news of 189 people killed in a plane crash.
A bit overly dramatic seeing as BHD, only a few miles away, was available.
I'll admit I hadn't thought of BHD alright, though if they had gone to SNN instead and something went wrong the outcome could have been as grim as set out with no other airport close by. None the less, the overall point remains, drone interference is having a significant safety and operational impact at the airport, brought home by the fact an aircraft was forced into a situation where it had to declare a fuel emergency yesterday.
Despite this, there doesn't actually seem to be any action to deter or catch whatever criminal is behind it, merely rhetoric on the radio about how it is illegal, not to fly drones within 5km of the airport and how they're looking into things. Surely after this fuel emergency incident, minds should be sharpened and a continuous garda or army presence around the perimeter could be maintained for the next few weeks until they can get a more permanent anti-drone device installed at the airport?
OA260 wrote:"Joe Biden is due in Dublin in about eight weeks’ time. The US president will fly in on Air Force One and have his helicopter Marine One with him. The US Secret Service tends not to take kindly to security threats. Dublin Airport has two months to sort out the drone problem – or the Yanks will."
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/d ... 68152.html
The sudden wake up call to the government that this needs sorted asap is probably due to the above and I wonder if this trip wasnt planned would it be getting certain politicians off their backsides !
KIRFlyer wrote:I see FR have raised the starting/average price on the KIR/DUB route to €47.99 each way. This was roughly the same price that RE/EIR used to charge. I don’t think enough demand has been stimulated for people to be content to pay the above price. I think passenger numbers will drop and FR will have even emptier planes!
AmricanShamrok wrote:KIRFlyer wrote:I see FR have raised the starting/average price on the KIR/DUB route to €47.99 each way. This was roughly the same price that RE/EIR used to charge. I don’t think enough demand has been stimulated for people to be content to pay the above price. I think passenger numbers will drop and FR will have even emptier planes!
That's disappointing and a massive jump from the €19.99 each way fare that it had been charging up to now.
AmricanShamrok wrote:That's disappointing and a massive jump from the €19.99 each way fare that it had been charging up to now.
EI321 wrote:Any news on EI-DUO? It was due back in DUB a few days ago but looks like its been delayed.
PhilipBass wrote:https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/girl-4-asks-to-move-house-due-to-constant-noise-from-dublin-airports-north-runway-42363089.html
emotive piece lacking on detail.
Eirules wrote:Eamon Ryan really doesnt project well at all. He comes across as incompetent.Not if it’s left to the gombeen minister for transport to deal with it. He was on the news at 1 stuttering & bumbling as usual, useless numpty. This crap is going on 6 weeks and he’s talking months before it’s sorted......