[PR] Bus Éireann Route X20 - Dublin/Dublin Airport – Galway

Victor

O_o Bus Éireann competing with Aer Arann.

http://www.buseireann.ie/site/news_centre/timetable_changes.asp?action=view&news_id=552

ROUTE X20 - Dublin/Dublin Airport – Galway - Published - 12th July 2007


Bus Éireann wishes to advise customers of a new Dublin/Dublin Airport - Galway Service.

This new service, Route X20, commences Sunday, 15 July 2007 and will operate as follows:

Dep Dublin | 0730 | 1830
Dep Dublin Airport | 0800 | 1900
Arr Athlone | 0930 | 2030
Dep Athlone | 0945 | 2045
Dep Ballinasloe | 1015 | 2115
Dep Loughrea | 1040 | 2140
Arr Galway | 1115 | 2215
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Dep Galway | 0000
Dep Loughrea | 0035
Dep Ballinasloe | 0100
Arr Athlone | 0130
Dep Athlone | 0140
Dep Dublin Airport | 0310
Arr Dublin | 0340

Fares: €14.00 single and €18.00 return

Wishbone Ash

Looks like the Dublin Airport - Galway route may be oversupplied.

Bus Nestor and Citylink are already competing for passengers on that route!

John R

Interesting that Bus Eireann are charging the same to Dublin Airport as to Dublin City whereas Citylink and Nestor both charge considerably more to the Airport, even on services that go there direct.

Chris_533976

Citylink do a service but it stops in too many places. Its crazy. That BE service looks better from that alone.

The BE service from Galway - Dublin Airport at midnight will do well. Citylink do ~1am and 2am departures from Galway but they have to be pre-booked as they're usually so busy.

Wishbone Ash

Chris_533976 wrote:

Citylink do ~1am and 2am departures from Galway but they have to be pre-booked as they're usually so busy.

There would probably be a bit of demand for a service leaving Dublin Airport around 2am also. A lot of the Eastern European flights, particularly Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia arrive in Dublin Airport around midnight and 1am. Quite a few of those passengers hang around the airport for several hours waiting for the first Citylink service (6am?).

jjbrien

It must go down the M50 which means those times are subject to delays.

Wishbone Ash

jjbrien wrote:

It must go down the M50 which means those times are subject to delays.

The average delays may have been factored into the timetable.

dowlingm

PSOs may only be awarded if there is less than 250k passengers on the route. I don't think anyone's ever asked the commission if trains and buses count, because if they ever do Arann's going to be off that gravy train and Kerry too.

GerardKeating

Chris_533976 wrote:

Citylink do a service but it stops in too many places. Its crazy. That BE service looks better from that alone.

But according to the timetable, the BE service is only 5 minutes faster, so the extra stops don't seem to make much difference, and the bus does kind of need to stop every now and then to let people on and off.

And according to the timetable, there is only one Galway-Dublin Airport service per day, not much for CityLink to worry about.l