Decline in Aircoach service?

suicide_circus

I take the aircoach several times per week from city centre to airport. Over he last number of months wait times have increased significantly for me. Has anyone else noticed this?
The only advantage over DB airport service was the smaller waiting time but this seems to be gone.

devnull

I believe both the Aircoach city center routes are down to every 15 minutes rather than every 10 now.

The Idyll Race

devnull wrote: »

I believe both the city center routes are down to every 15 minutes rather than every 10 now.

I only ever pick up the DB service at the Point now, because the round-the-houses route to Heuston is a royal pain. Add rain and teatime traffic and it became torture

devnull

Well the 747 is for sure not as direct as it used to be, but combining it with the 748 was without a doubt a sensible financial decision I would suspect. I wouldn't bother going out of my way to the point to pick it up from there though, but I guess you do have a choice of a good amount of Airport buses from there, with the 747 and two Aircoach an hour from the O2 via the port tunnel.

SandyfordGuy

Leopardstown is no longer running at 15 minute intervals, it's running at 30 minute intervals.
Ballsbridge is no longer running at 10 minute intervals, it is now running at 15 minute intervals.

The above is able to be viewed from the Transport for Ireland journey planner which the timetables for the service show the above frequency. The same planner seems to suggest that the timetable changed in May.

devnull

That is an absolute scandal if those times on Transport for Ireland are indeed up to date and they have cut the service back by that much yet are trying to present to the public that it is still running every 10 minutes on each route! Although saying that the two pages do contradict each other

http://www.aircoach.ie/table.routes.dublin.citycentre.php
http://www.aircoach.ie/table.routes.ballsbridge.php
http://www.aircoach.ie/table.routes.leopardstown.php

Note how the first one shows both routes running every ten minutes but the second and third shows every 15 minutes. Honestly, this is exactly the same kind of problem we've been talking about with Aircoach in the thread relating to the Cork service.

They really need to sort that website out, it's getting to criminal levels now how bad and incorrect it is.

Vahevala

I can't believe they don't even have the correct times listed on their own website. The average Joe Bloggs will have no clue about the transport for Ireland website. It actually astounds me of what an amateur operation, Aircoach seem to offer these days.

gzoladz

I noticed it. I had to wait more than 30 minutes at the airport to get the aircoach to Ballsbridge, when usually it was 15 min max.

If I knew I had taken a taxi instead.

Unacceptable for what they charge.