Easyjet just landed at eidw

Dreamtime

Easyjet flight ezy8001 just landed at dub is this a diversion ??

Hardly aer lingus using them.

nag

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1008/jobs-business.html

Dreamtime

That can only be good news thanks for the link, Is that one of the first i havent seen any going into dub

RachaelVO

nag wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1008/jobs-business.html

Cracking link! A nice positive story for a change!

January

Have seen a few heading in and out. Thought I was seeing things.

CabanasBoy

It's probably been asked before but why have EasyJet never done the UK-Eire routes (or more specifically, London-Dublin)?
Would be great to see them carrying pax at EIDW.

lord lucan

CabanasBoy wrote: »

It's probably been asked before but why have EasyJet never done the UK-Eire routes (or more specifically, London-Dublin)?
Would be great to see them carrying pax at EIDW.

They'd get slaughtered by FR tbh. FR would drop prices to Zero and EZY would not be able to sustain a route between Dublin and London. EZY are smart enough not to try and take on FR in their own back yard.

LXFlyer

CabanasBoy wrote: »

It's probably been asked before but why have EasyJet never done the UK-Eire routes (or more specifically, London-Dublin)?
Would be great to see them carrying pax at EIDW.

Easyjet did operate to Cork, Shannon and Ireland-West at Knock from January 2005 until July 2006. However, as stated above competition from Ryanair saw Easyjet off.

Incidentally last time I checked this country is known as "Ireland" in the English language - "Eire" is only used when talking/writing in Irish. An exceptionally common error by people across the water that does irritate a bit.

RachaelVO

CabanasBoy wrote: »

It's probably been asked before but why have EasyJet never done the UK-Eire routes (or more specifically, London-Dublin)?
Would be great to see them carrying pax at EIDW.

Basically cos Ryanair are cheaper and annihilated them price wise!

CabanasBoy

lxflyer wrote: »

Easyjet did operate to Cork, Shannon and Ireland-West at Knock from January 2005 until July 2006. However, as stated above competition from Ryanair saw Easyjet off.

Incidentally last time I checked this country is known as "Ireland" in the English language - "Eire" is only used when talking/writing in Irish. An exceptionally common error by people across the water that does irritate a bit.

That irritates you? you're easy irritated! If I want to call it Eire, I'll call it Eire!
Incidentally, I said Eire to indicate it was the Republic I was referring to as EazyJet do fly to the island of Ireland.:)

Thanks for all the answers, with all FR's extra charges now though, I wonder would they still be cheaper?

LXFlyer

CabanasBoy wrote: »

That irritates you? you're easy irritated! If I want to call it Eire, I'll call it Eire!
Incidentally, I said Eire to indicate it was the Republic I was referring to as EazyJet do fly to the island of Ireland.:)

Thanks for all the answers, with all FR's extra charges now though, I wonder would they still be cheaper?

Maybe I am easily irritated, but most people don't call Germany "Deutschland" or Poland "Polska" when talking in English about those countries. It appears to be an English peculiarity (and I don't know where you're from but it is generally English people that do this) when it comes to talking about Ireland that for whatever reason they don't use the English name for this country and use the Irish name instead. If you want to differentiate states, then use the "Republic of Ireland"!

Anyway I digress, you're welcome on the Easyjet question.

RachaelVO

CabanasBoy wrote: »

That irritates you? you're easy irritated! If I want to call it Eire, I'll call it Eire!
Incidentally, I said Eire to indicate it was the Republic I was referring to as EazyJet do fly to the island of Ireland.:)

Thanks for all the answers, with all FR's extra charges now though, I wonder would they still be cheaper?

If I'm honest I'm not so bothered what ya call it! Eire, ROI, Ireland, the Emerald Isle, it really doesn't matter that much. I knew what ya meant (ie the south as opposed to the north).

Anyway in answer to your question if I think that EasyJet is cheaper after all of ryanairs charges, my answer to that is nope! I still reckon that Ryanair is much cheaper

testicle

lxflyer wrote: »

Incidentally last time I checked this country is known as "Ireland" in the English language - "Eire" is only used when talking/writing in Irish. An exceptionally common error by people across the water that does irritate a bit.

Incidentally, the English language version of the Constitution has both Eire and Ireland as the name of the nation.

CabanasBoy

lxflyer wrote: »

Maybe I am easily irritated, If you want to differentiate states, then use the "Republic of Ireland"!

Na, I'll continue to call my home country "Eire" as that's what it's called in the constitution (see above);)

parsi

lxflyer wrote: »

Easyjet did operate to Cork, Shannon and Ireland-West at Knock from January 2005 until July 2006. However, as stated above competition from Ryanair saw Easyjet off.

I was on their first flight from Cork. This was delayed for a while as they'd forgotten to disarm the slide and when they opened up in Cork the slide deployed.

A320

slide deployment,ha bit of over excitement to be in cork!!!! did the 'slide armed' light on the door not give it away!

adamski8

testicle wrote: »

Incidentally, the English language version of the Constitution has both Eire and Ireland as the name of the nation.

does it??
Article 4
The name of the State is Éire, or, in the English language, Ireland.
that seems to imply eire is only the irish name!
i dont see a problem with people saying eire though if they want. Surely irish people should be allowed call their own country by its name in one of the offical languages of the state next people will be saying dont be calling it aerlingus as it comes from irish words

parsi

A320 wrote: »

slide deployment,ha bit of over excitement to be in cork!!!! did the 'slide armed' light on the door not give it away!

Dunno.

LXFlyer

adamski8 wrote: »

does it??
Article 4
The name of the State is Éire, or, in the English language, Ireland.
that seems to imply eire is only the irish name!
i dont see a problem with people saying eire though if they want. Surely irish people should be allowed call their own country by its name in one of the offical languages of the state next people will be saying dont be calling it aerlingus as it comes from irish words

Apologies to one and all for digressing to this - I guess I just found it used it a lot by English people that I came into contact with over the years in a rather disparaging way who could not come to use the name "Ireland" when describing this country - anyway I think leave it be and focus on this rather positive news about an Irish success story with this new maintenance contract!

donkey balls

A320 wrote: »

slide deployment,ha bit of over excitement to be in cork!!!! did the 'slide armed' light on the door not give it away!

Maybe it was the ground crew who opened the door it has happened:obefore also the strip going accross the window should have been another indicater.

A320

If im not mistaken Easy used an A319 on the route,you can't blow a slide on the main doors on the A320 series from outside,lifting the handle from outside will disarm the slide

Mr Benevolent

CabanasBoy wrote: »

Na, I'll continue to call my home country "Eire" as that's what it's called in the constitution (see above);)

Only English people call the ROI 'Eire'.

CabanasBoy

Confab wrote: »

Only English people call the ROI 'Eire'.

Whatever:rolleyes:, do you tell people "I'm from the ROI"?

N7777G

the Easyjet A319 departed Dublin today after maintenance

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eigjb/5413778487/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eigjb/5414388426/

GoGoGadget

Jaysus lads let him call it what he wants. I understand where your coming from with Eire, personally I don't call it that but its a hell of a lot easier than typing out the Republic of Ireland.

The purpose of a language is communication, if the listener understands what is being said the language has served it's purpose!

lintdrummer

Confab wrote: »

Only English people call the ROI 'Eire'.

How sad it is that people such as yourself think that the British are the only people to use the Irish language to call our country by it's proper name.

I'm Irish and I use 'Éire'. When I'm getting anything shipped from overseas or if I'm sending a postcard home.

English people generally sound like they're saying 'island' when they say 'Ireland' so I'm happy that they use Éire more often.