New (OLD) bus service Portlaoise-Dublin Airport

John R

A new bus service is now in operation serving Portlaoise, Kildare, Newbridge, Naas, Green Isle Clondalkin, Red Cow Luas and Dublin Airport.

http://www.dublincoach.com/

This is being operated by by the former owners of Aircoach who still own Quick-Park and is very similar to the un-successful Portlaoise-Airport route that used to run as part of the Aircoach operation until a few years ago.

BuffyBot

One wonders how long this will last, considering the lifespan of operators on that route post-Aircoach.

I think one only lasted a week.

L1011

That timetable has some hopelessly optomistic Red Cow -> Airport times. 30 minutes at 6pm?

Wishbone Ash

BuffyBot wrote: »

One wonders how long this will last, considering the lifespan of operators on that route post-Aircoach.

I think one only lasted a week.

It was much longer than a week. The company which took over that route must have had some connection with Aircoach though (I can't recall their name now) as their buses were regularly in the Aircoach garage or parked up overnight in QuickPark.

Was it Aircoach under another name?

BuffyBot

t was much longer than a week.

No, trust me, there was one operator who lasted a week, two max before giving it up. When Aircoach gave it up they were one of the few souls who tried to make the route work afterwards.

For a long time there has been no service so I do wonder how this one will do.

John R

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

It was much longer than a week. The company which took over that route must have had some connection with Aircoach though (I can't recall their name now) as their buses were regularly in the Aircoach garage or parked up overnight in QuickPark.

Was it Aircoach under another name?

The company that ran it under Aircoach for a few months right after they pulled out was Probus of Kenmare using silver Mercedes/Setra coaches. The 3 Mercedes/Setra coaches now painted in the QuickPark livery running the service are hired to Dublin Coach from Probus.

If there was another operator who only lasted a week I don't know about them, not that I'm saying BuffyBot is wrong though. With the farce that is private bus regulation in Ireland it wouldn't surprise me at all. There has been a number of operations that have started and finished in various parts of the country in short order that I know of and no doubt lots more that I don't.

patrickc

i see there using mini coaches on this service a lot now