Aer Lingus, potential for extra revenue?

Stinicker

I just noticed that Aer Lingus seem to ferriy aircraft between Dublin and Cork to operate the Cork - Edinburgh flight. I'm thinking why not reestablish a service between DUB & ORK on a schedule around these movements and issue tickets on these positioning flights? It would help cover some of the jetfuel costs of the positioning anyway.

highlydebased

On That particular occasion the aircraft was ferried to Cork owing to a problem with the existing aircraft there. It doesn't happen often

Stinicker

highlydebased wrote: »

On That particular occasion the aircraft was ferried to Cork owing to a problem with the existing aircraft there. It doesn't happen often

oh, my sister was on that Edinburgh flight and it was delayed by around an hour alright, I was naturally tracking it in the FlightRadar24 app so that was what aroused my curiosity about the subject.

munchkin_utd

Stinicker wrote: »

I just noticed that Aer Lingus seem to ferriy aircraft between Dublin and Cork to operate the Cork - Edinburgh flight. I'm thinking why not reestablish a service between DUB & ORK on a schedule around these movements and issue tickets on these positioning flights? It would help cover some of the jetfuel costs of the positioning anyway.

yea, have to agree.
The Munich flight originally was Cork-Dublin-Munich (and return). So to get from Munich to Cork you just stayed on the plane in Dublin when other passengers go on and off.
With Cork flights to the continent being limited enough, having such a service links you in to a heap of departures in Dublin to destinations which are low (or no) frequency from Cork - and is very handy if you dont have to get off the plane at all.

Now on certain days they have Cork-Munich-Dublin-Munich-Cork plane allocation which is a novel way to provide a plane from Cork to service Dublin to the continent!

munchkin_utd

munchkin_utd wrote: »

Now on certain days they have Cork-Munich-Dublin-Munich-Cork plane allocation which is a novel way to provide a plane from Cork to service Dublin to the continent!

Not novel at all it's actually regularly done by most international airlines. I stand to be corrected but I think it is called a W pattern.

Growler!!!

Yep a w pattern for example the "new" EIR service from Shannon to Birmingham starts and ends in Cork.

River Song

Exactly right. There are a few W pattern flights at the moment for EI:

NOC (Knock) is done by DUB-LGW-NOC-LGW-DUB (for a while there was a BHD flight done the same as this too, albeit not for long)

PMI (Palma) - DUB-PMI-ORK-PMI-DUB (occasionally through BHD, as opposed to ORK)

MUC, as above.

Used to be GVA from Dublin through Cork too, was on Saturdays for Winter 2014/15

LXFlyer

Each of the Shannon flights from/to continental Europe are operated on the inner parts of a W pattern by a Cork or Dublin based aircraft. LGW/Knock uses a Belfast based A319 on Saturdays.

For many years there was a DUB-LHR-ORK-LHR-DUB rotation during the summer.

It's an easy way to add extra routes and has been practiced for many years.

KCAccidental

hopefully someday we might get a DUB-TXL-ORK W pattern!

JCX BXC

Shannon's EIN FAO and AGP routes are done by W patterns from Cork.

In the winter when ACE operates using the SNN based A320 (From this winter), there will be a W pattern LHR route operated by a DUB aircraft.