ADD-DUB-LAX

billie1b

Early morning departure sounds great, basically a full day when you arrive, lack of sleep wouldn't bother me, with shift work, 4 kids, 2 dogs and a cat you get used to it. You learn to just get through it

smurfjed

Owenc, i assume that you understand the limitations of operations from hot/high airports, and the benefits of arriving early in LAX therefore allowing easy connections to west coast destinations ?

I'm sure that they will allow you sleep during the flight

Preset No.3

owenc wrote: »

Well when I flew from Belfast to America the last time I was only awake for 15 ours. The pre clearance and distance mean't that we had to be up 8 hours earlier than we normally would.

I think for a distance of 4,000 miles being awake for 24 hours is a bit much.

What is this major chip on your shoulder that you have? This thread is about a flight from DUBLIN!!!! You still managed to drag Belfast into it and then you fuel the fire even more complaining about the flight times. This route does not effect you at all. Nobody is putting a gun to your head and demanding that you take this flight. We all have a choice in the service we use. Fine if it's not for you, but stop dragging opinions in that have nothing to do with the issue at hand.

owenc

Well the price was brought up

IrishAir98

owenc wrote: »

Well the price was brought up

That's good for you Owen but a very good price for a flight to LA from Dublin doesn't have anything to do with belfast. People are going to go on a 6.30am TALT flight if it's 400 return if you want to pay an extra 300 euro to fly with a stopover somewhere which is not inconvenient be my guest..

jamo2oo9

owenc wrote: »

Well the price was brought up

If the flights are normally expensive and they are cheap at the moment, obviously sacrifices have to be made. Everyone would opportune for a cheap flight and stay up all night for the sake of it because not everyone has the deep pockets to afford expensive flights that would be convenient in relation to timings or the distance they have to travel to the airport.

Fred Swanson

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owenc

No I will just stick to Belfast at £500. Never will I fly from GB.

IrishAir98

owenc wrote: »

No I will just stick to Belfast at £500. Never will I fly from GB.

You waste your money any way you want man if you don't realise a stopover is more tiring than a direct flight.

Jack1985

owenc wrote: »

No I will just stick to Belfast at £500. Never will I fly from GB.

Sorry to be blunt, but who gives a sh*t what you spend or where you fly from. The thread is irrelevant to your personal decisions which you like to share on a daily-basis on here without invitation, FFS. :rolleyes:

billie1b

Jack1985 wrote: »

Sorry to be blunt, but who gives a sh*t what you spend or where you fly from. The thread is irrelevant to your personal decisions which you like to share on a daily-basis on here without invitation, FFS. :rolleyes:

And breathe..........

owenc

Jack1985 wrote: »

Sorry to be blunt, but who gives a sh*t what you spend or where you fly from. The thread is irrelevant to your personal decisions which you like to share on a daily-basis on here without invitation, FFS. :rolleyes:

If you get so irritated by something as trivial as personal preferences you have problems.

owenc

IrishAir98 wrote: »

You waste your money any way you want man if you don't realise a stopover is more tiring than a direct flight.

I like flying from within an hour of my house.

Jack1985

owenc wrote: »

If you get so irritated by something as trivial as personal preferences you have problems.

Yeah, it seems we all do, bar you as you so adequately show per each post on boards.ie. :eek:

IrishAir98

owenc wrote: »

If you get so irritated by something as trivial as personal preferences you have problems.

You come on here and troll countless amounts of threads just to get a rise out of proper contributors to the threads please re evaluate yourself on these threads or just leave..hopefully..

Irish Steve

IrishAir98 wrote: »

You come on here and troll countless amounts of threads just to get a rise out of proper contributors to the threads please re evaluate yourself on these threads or just leave..hopefully..

There is another option, which I've just exercised, called the ignore list. I can highly recommend it for some of the more persistent trolls that won't take the hint from the mods or other members.

jamo2oo9

owenc wrote: »

No I will just stick to Belfast at £500. Never will I fly from GB.

I hope you do realise that flying out of Belfast still counts as flying out of GB....

owenc

Irish Steve wrote: »

There is another option, which I've just exercised, called the ignore list. I can highly recommend it for some of the more persistent trolls that won't take the hint from the mods or other members.

I am being bullied how dare you or him tell me to go away. I posted my opinion about flight times and he made a fuss. I am disgusted.

Tenger

This will be short and not so sweet.

owenc warned for trolling.
Based on continual negative posts in regards to an airline service not personally suiting him. Expressing an opinion is fine, but disdain and derision is not. You have been given lots of leeway over the last few months, not to mention lots of helpful advice.

Discussing times is not a problem but dismissing a route purely based on schedule and "having to be awake for 24 hours" is personal preference. No need to denigrate others who chose to work around such issues.


To everyone else: expressions of personal preference are not an issue, but please lets stop getting so up in arms over the personal opinion of a single leisure traveler.

This is about the ADD-DUB-LAX route, remember that


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owenc wrote: »

I am being bullied how dare you or him tell me to go away. I posted my opinion about flight times and he made a fuss. I am disgusted.

No, you are not. You are not been told to "go away". A poster pointed out that Boards.ie have a personal filter in place. Not a thing wrong with this user function.
In addition your opinion of flight times was along the lines of "they don't suit me so why dont they change them?"

Tenger

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

I hope you do realise that flying out of Belfast still counts as flying out of GB....

Actually no.
Correct name is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland."

knockon

I wonder when should we see the route up
On the Ethopian Airlines website for sale for DUB - LAX legs?

knockon

DUB - LAX will be for sale on the Ethiopian Airlines website next month (December).

Source: Facebook message from Ethiopian Airlines

alanceltic

I looked at flights to LA about 2 weeks ago and was very surprised to see a direct flight to LA, after a bit of searching I found this thread. I got prices in July for about €810 but when I went to look again the following day (I was going to book once I got my accommodation sorted out) the prices had spiked to about €980.

Now the weird thing is that these flights are available to book on the travel agent sites like e-travel but not available on their own website as a previous poster has mentioned, will be interesting to see what their price points are like when they become available to book on their own site.

Anyone have any "Ebola" concerns booking a flight originating in an African country bearing in mind that we don't know how things will pan out over the niext couple of months?

therecklessone

alanceltic wrote: »

Anyone have any "Ebola" concerns booking a flight originating in an African country bearing in mind that we don't know how things will pan out over the niext couple of months?

Dublin is closer to Freetown than Addis Adaba, should we be worried?

KCAccidental

therecklessone wrote: »

Dublin is closer to Freetown than Addis Adaba, should we be worried?

alanceltic

Fair point and I am not being alarmist but they are struggling to contain this to west Africa and we are starting to see all sorts of travel restrictions coming into effect which are only likely to escalate before they get better. Anyway I am drifting slightly off topic.

LXFlyer

alanceltic wrote: »

Fair point and I am not being alarmist but they are struggling to contain this to west Africa and we are starting to see all sorts of travel restrictions coming into effect which are only likely to escalate before they get better. Anyway I am drifting slightly off topic.

Actually, they have been very successful in containing this outbreak to those three countries.


Given that the only scheduled flights out of the three Ebola-hit countries to/from Europe currently are with Brussels Airlines to Brussels, then following your train of thought we should perhaps ban flights between Dublin and Brussels?


We are talking about flights from a city (Addis) that is over 3,000 miles away from that region that has no direct flights from those countries.


A bit of perspective is required here.

BuffyBot

knockon wrote: »

DUB - LAX will be for sale on the Ethiopian Airlines website next month (December).

Source: Facebook message from Ethiopian Airlines

They're now bookable via the Ethiopian website.

knockon

Deleted User wrote: »

Update at 0800GMT 21OCT14

Ethiopian Airlines has revised planned service launch on Addis Ababa – Dublin – Los Angeles route, based on schedule update in the last 48 hours. Previously scheduled from 03JUN15, the airline will now begin operation from Los Angeles on 18JUN15, Addis Ababa on 19JUN15.
Planned 3 weekly operation on board Boeing 787-8 remains unchanged.
ET504 ADD2300 – 0530+1DUB0630+1 – 0930+1LAX 788 357
ET505 LAX2330 – 1830+1DUB1930+1 – 0600+2ADD 788 146

Slight change in schedule...

ET 504 Ethiopian Airlines DUB 06:15 LAX 09:15
ET 505 Ethiopian Airlines LAX 00:45 DUB 19:30

The only positives I can see besides the direct service is the early arrival in LAX and the fares which are pretty good.

The negatives - a real early departure meaning no nights sleep especially outside Dublin. No pre clearance in DUB. Anyone use TBIT recently, queues at immigration??

Fred Swanson

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