The flybe name has been dragged through the dirt so much that there's no reason to use (bits of) it for anything surely?
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Not unless it was to be covered by the PSO scheme and there is no realistic prospect of that happening.
" The document indicated that the proposed terminal would be inspired by new airports in Beijing, Qatar and the Philippines." " The presentation also showed an underground rail link between airport terminals" Surely this news story is a day late :lol: And yet it'll apparently co...
Jump to postOnly change that would be likely short term is that the LDY-DUB PSO might actually return; has been discussed repeatedly. Train service is nowhere near competitive time-wise which how KIR-DUB is still allowed.
Jump to postWATs routes from ~2008 are what is probably the realistic medium term target again; and if circumstances were right, a mix of FR on LTN or STN and bucket'n'spade with EA AT76s on MAN/BHX/NW France would be ideal. AMS would be implausible due to the AMS slot issues though - swap in more bucket and sp...
Jump to postI think, realistically, Ryan is going to do nothing; one could almost say, from his perspective, it wouldn't look good for a Green TD/minister to be doing anything to help aviation. I wonder if there are arguments behind the scene on this, because several ministers have called for the cap to be lif...
Jump to postThe green party appear to be trying to protect their local vote around Dublin airport rather than look and examine the DAA plans on sustainability etc. contained in the recent planning proposal quoting the usual buzz words like climate emergency and flies in the face of Ireland's national planning ...
Jump to postDUBHUB wrote:Got to laugh at Ryanair.
Just booked a DUB-AMS flight with flight number FR420…..
Did plenty of DUB-CFN on these (as my username may suggest) as well as ending up on DUB-CWL when they were wet-leased in to Aer Arann once.
They certainly felt more comfortable than the old ATRs that they were competing with at that time, but they were clearly dated against the -600 series
Cork are saying it was their busiest year ever for International traffic? What about 2007 it had 3.2 million then? Cork seem to go over the top in all there press releases. 2007 would have included an absolutely massive amount of domestic. There were 2.1m domestic pax in 2007, there's about 60k now...
Jump to postCork are saying it was their busiest year ever for International traffic? What about 2007 it had 3.2 million then? Cork seem to go over the top in all there press releases. 2007 would have included an absolutely massive amount of domestic. There were 2.1m domestic pax in 2007, there's about 60k now...
Jump to postplanemanofnz wrote:YUAND wrote:I wouldn't be surprised to see one of BA/U2 give DUB-LGW a try.
Would U2 ever do DUB though? Risk FR would retaliate?
There used to be a lot of connections to VS, which are clearly gone now - I wonder how much revenue they were responsible for.
Jump to postshamrocka330 wrote:[
How is the 747-8 too long for the hanger when it’s the same length as all other 747 models?
Ireland Airways got the first PSO for CFN, went under while running it - which happened again with RE many years later!
Jump to postI'm fault sure they sold tickets on the GWY/WAT portion of those flights, but not sure. Might have been one it really It was definitely sold. At the time I was told (by someone working for one of RE's lessors, so may have actually known) they were quite surprised by how many people actually bought ...
Jump to postBecause they're all in competition with each other, because running hubs for transfers costs money, because none of them want to be on the hook for missed connections with other carriers and about 900 other issues.
Jump to postOdd pricing (and people having zero value for their own time) could lead to some of those connections being booked but surely only BGO and WAW make any sense? Mileage runs also a possibility I guess. They do actually sell DUB-CPH-LHR tickets on their website, 101.40 for a random weekday later in the...
Jump to postGalwayman wrote:
Knock is the best run airport on the island. And has some of the lowest costs . Only a matter of time .
https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-slams-daa-for-awarding-e33m-prm-contract-funded-by-passengers-at-dublin-airport-without-tender/ seems strange that such a large contract would not be put out to tender. DAA claim it is covered by previous Tender. Truth is probably somewhere in the middle. ...
Jump to postI'm guessing CAN was meant to be CUN as mentioned just before; but either way Cancun is nowhere near as much of a tourist destination for Europeans than it is for US residents.
Jump to postA few interesting points in this article about passenger numbers from Kerry. It seems Ryanair’s Dublin route averaged less than 90 passengers per flight in the busy Q3 2023 period. [33,176 passengers in 92 days, 368 flights counting two flights a day in each direction excluding cancellations]. http...
Jump to postReally? Here in New Zealand, many such flights on such airliners exist. Outside of the few minutes flights to the islands at is is, no such flights have existed here for decades Also, the potential target audience for these flights has plausibly never even been on a turboprop flight in their life l...
Jump to postEven an ATR42 can't get use runways that short. It would have to be a specialised STOL airframe like a Twin Otter. Or the Islanders that are already used - but a no aisle, no toilet, no service, weighed before you get on Islander for what would be about an hours flying time( plus ground time in DUB)...
Jump to postThere's the rumblings of a debate elsewhere on a.net about whether non-stop flights between the Aran Islands and Dublin could ever fill a (small) plane full of pax. My theory is that given enough cash-rich time-poor people who fly in to Dublin during the summer, and plenty of the "real traditi...
Jump to postThere's the rumblings of a debate elsewhere on a.net about whether non-stop flights between the Aran Islands and Dublin could ever fill a (small) plane full of pax. My theory is that given enough cash-rich time-poor people who fly in to Dublin during the summer, and plenty of the "real traditi...
Jump to postA single stop route to AU/NZ that doesn't require going through a theocracy, a dictatorship, or both; or without the huge stage length of LHR-PER, would be great. For AKL, you can fly via JFK, ORD, SFO or LAX on EI, and connect on to AKL on NZ. All of these routings are actually shorter in distance...
Jump to postNever understood the obsession with QR especially in the LGBTQIA+ communities which a lot of these bloggers and Anetters come from . It’s like Turkeys voting for Christmas . Seems some people will sell themselves out for a few thousand AVIOS or an upgrade ! Yes someone finally put it into words! Ho...
Jump to postIn 1963 the service was then ‘streamlined’ and instead of operating depots the airline undertook complete door-to-door delivery to any address in the United Kingdom for a charge of £1 per turkey. An Aer Lingus poster from this era depicted an incongruously smiling turkey (wearing a fez hat and carr...
Jump to postAer Lingus are doing the same for about a year! If you don't check in online before the green seats down the back are all taken you have to pay or queue at airport/Kiosk to get a boarding pass. Granted they are clever about it and not applied to full aircraft and avoid negative headlines. Not that ...
Jump to postFlew EI to Heathrow on Saturday morning, the first flight out at 6.40am. The NEO is definitely a bit bare bones but it was fine for an hour. One breakfast loaded for the entire full flight, ridiculous EI need to fire their data scientists, if they are telling them based on previous sales data that ...
Jump to postWell this is interesting! Dublin (Waterford), akin to Frankfurt (Hahn) or Paris (Beauvais)? Seems a bit of a push - surely a joke! Negotiations are underway between Ryanair and Waterford airport to pretend it’s just outside Dublin ... “Waterford is basically South Dublin when you think about it,” a...
Jump to postSNN are always looking for the next thing to blame. Loss of stopover, "Dublin", COVID and now not being considered regional - you can't spin that one both ways, considering yourself a transatlantic gateway *and* a regional airport.
Jump to postWell, you won't have to miss it for too much longer as call centre agents in Dublin are currently in training. Once they're up to speed, the level of service should be improved. That being said though, it'll take some time for the newbies to get completely up to speed as what they have to learn is ...
Jump to postA bit of turmoil in FR's social media team? I wonder what's going on? https://onemileatatime.com/news/ryanair-social-media-boss-quits/ "Company known to be difficult to work for continues to be difficult to work for" isn't generally a headline. The social media manager who made the compan...
Jump to postFairly sure any airbridge gate at DUB can be used as a bus gate, e.g. if there's one blocked by an adjacent widebody you can use it for buses by directing people down the stairs. Been an age since I went to the US so don't know what the stand usage is like at peak. 'Proper' bus gates on the ground f...
Jump to postOut to BCN this evening, only about 20 mins late despite a day of weather delays and the only complaint I can make about EI lounge or catering is that they could have cleared vacated seats of glasses a little quicker in the lounge, but as it wasn't particularly full that wasn't a real issue anyway. ...
Jump to postARN used to be a huge performer for connections before Norwegian Longhaul - with that basically dead I would have thought it would be a high priority to restart.
Jump to postClydenairways wrote:
Maybe there is just a better margin on drinks compared to perishable foods.
I don't think I've been on an EI flight that hasn't run out of a substantial proportion of the cart. I cannot see how loading 3x-4x the load wouldn't make more than enough money to cover any unsold product and the weight. The goal is to sell out completely, though perhaps not that quickly! You want...
Jump to postI don't think I've been on an EI flight that hasn't run out of a substantial proportion of the cart. I cannot see how loading 3x-4x the load wouldn't make more than enough money to cover any unsold product and the weight.
Jump to postdnata. I would presume it is EI not ordering enough rather than dnata failing to supply, considering the problems are just a continuation of when it was in-house.
Jump to postCatering is still woeful every flight I've been on
If you get the RedC survey after, you need to go in studs-up on the catering. It appears to be the only thing the head office listens to!
NOC do outdoor advertising (generic and route specific) across their extended catchment area, hard to say if that works but it certainly reminds people of the option.
Jump to postWhat about BFS, which already has holiday flights by Tui, Virgin etc? Could they get a slice of the pie here? It's an awful airport compared to, well, any other on the island but yeah - offer a decent parking deal and get the travel agents to explain it well enough and it could work. My brother fli...
Jump to postPádraig Ó Céidigh former chief executive of Aer Arann: Dublin Airport ‘bursting is at the seams’ As our capital’s airport comes perilously close to its cap on passenger numbers, industry veterans ask if it’s time to focus on the development of our underused regional airports https://www.businesspos...
Jump to postSome great flights with Iberia Express today. Routing ACE - MAD - DUB in J . Friendly crews and on time. People moan about them but I couldn't really fault them. Would be great if Aer Lingus had that kind of product . The lounge in MAD at T4S due to ROI being outside schengen gives a long haul faci...
Jump to postBillund has one particular traffic draw - Legoland, Lego actually built the airfield in the first place - and it closes after Halloween every year. I don't think it could ever really support a 738 all winter.
Jump to postBluff, which the papers just love to report
We already know how useless FRs idea of a white elephant is (T2)
The extension of the 100s is further advanced than the T2/400s one I think; but a new hangar has to be built to replace what's in the way.
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