I wonder if EI would be interested in the now empty Thomas Cook Las Vegas slots. They could do a connection from the UK & have all passengers do immigration & customs in Dublin. They already fly to all the other US locations, so I doubt they'd be interested in increasing frequency.
Jack1985 wrote: » ....... DUB-BDL - Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun DUB-EWR - Tu, Thu, Sat DUB-PHL - Daily Service SNN-BOS - Daily service
basill wrote: » The problem has always been that when destinations go above a flight time of approximately 9.5-10hrs then it necessitates 2 airframes to operate a route. If it isn't daily then you can end up with aircraft sitting around not earning. Throw into the mix seasonality (more of an issue on the leisure routes) and they don't look as attractive from an overall yield perspective over a year. The single airframe proposition with a European tag on is the ideal earner as the assets are "sweated".
OU812 wrote: » I wonder if EI would be interested in the now empty Thomas Cook Las Vegas slots. They could do a connection from the UK & have all passengers do immigration & customs in Dublin. They already fly to all the other US locations, so I doubt they'd be interested in increasing frequency.
Tenger wrote: » I had looked at the website about a month ago and it was showing DUB-IAD 3 times a week. Just looking there I see BDL is dropping to 4x weekly and that EWR is showing daily. So will be interesting to hear how the alternate aircraft works out on that route over the winter.
kevinandrew wrote: » Where are these supposed dents located, fuselage, engine or cabin? Would have thought anything major would have picked up during the delivery process, must be some sort of inspection before hand over.
Captain_Crash wrote: » So word on the street is LRB is covered in dents and EI are not happy with it! Can anyone confirm? Source who told me said he was told by an engineer who’s been with it, but admittedly it’s second hand information!
Captain_Crash wrote: » kevinandrew wrote: » Where are these supposed dents located, fuselage, engine or cabin? Would have thought anything major would have picked up during the delivery process, must be some sort of inspection before hand over. That was my thought! I asked and the answer I got was supposedly it looks like it was sat in a hail storm! I know nothing more and just posting here what I was told (source is fairly reliable, but again full disclosure, he hasn’t seen it and was only told about it)
Captain_Crash wrote: So word on the street is LRB is covered in dents and EI are not happy with it! Can anyone confirm?
flange888 wrote: » Not accurate
Karl8415 wrote: » Considering that EI have new 330's due soon would there ever be a market for them to introduce premium economy seating to generate extra revenue or will they alway have business and economy only
Captain_Crash wrote: Do you know if there is any issues or was it just an unfounded rumor?
Nijmegen wrote: » Premium economy would be a good fit, it's where a lot of the market is heading towards to drive margin. A lot of biz travellers don't have the policies to support business class travel but their companies will do premium economy and a lot of wealthier / older travellers will go premium economy. There's some interesting graphs here on the YoY growth rate of the seats, and it has really taken off in recent years. Allows you to continue to strip back and offer the barebones down the back to win the Skyscanner battles and then drive more premium margin in the middle vs relying for it all right up the front.
Karl8415 wrote: » T Thank you for your reply and I appreciate it,I asked my question because I’m watching a lot of new aircraft deliveries with different airlines with different manufacturers and the vast amount of them seem to be going down this road of premium economy, now I know that EI 330-300’s has either 283 or 287 in economy pending on MTOW variant but I just wonder if they were to experiment with converting a few economy rows into premium with a new cabin that they would increase the gross revenue that the aircraft would generate, it might not happen with the 2 pending 300’s that are due but I wonder would they consider it as the current 200’s get replaced with 300 series
alancostello wrote: » If EI get added to the transatlantic joint venture they’ll roll it out as they'll want consistent product offerings across participating brands. They’ll remove the first 4-6 rows of economy and replace it with 3-4 rows of PE in a 2-3-2 similar to what American has on its A330s.
sherology wrote: » Were it me, I'd add the same PE seat (if they do retrofit the class) to the a321/320 fleet, on a 3-2 configuration, ~5 rows, and sell that as AerSpace/Priority (route dependent) - not a huge reduction in seat count - and give the folks connecting and those who pay for all the bells and whistles on short haul a little differentiation. A lot of folks buy all those bells and whistles, and would likely pay that bit more for some extra comfort and the felling of separation. Not me... I'm a total cheap skate, but I do notice the priority line on flights. I'd like EI to become more boutique, and lead a bit more. Seems the right size for this type of product. Full biz on certain early morning trunk routes - as planned, and PE available on the others... So people are never totally disappointed by what they get for their higher fares.
alancostello wrote: » While a nice idea, it'll never happen for a variety or reasons, not least among them that PE seats wouldn't fit in a 3-2 config. American use an identical seat for PE and Domestic First, 2-3-2 or 2-4-2 on wide bodies (A330/787 and 777, respectively), and 2-2 on all narrowbody aircraft. All AerSpace ever will be is a blocked middle seat same as literally every other premium Euro airline does. The only development that'll happen is a divider and changeable cabin size.
Kcormahs wrote: » I didnt hear about divider/curtain or meal improvement. You just presuming this or have you heard anything?
alancostello wrote: » Never mentioned anything about meal improvement? A divider/changeable cabin size is inevitable, likely just something that sticks on top of seats, it'll have to be in order to compete. They're trialling it with Row 1 for now but of course they'll need more, especially on likes of the LHR/CDG/AMS flights.
Irish Steve wrote: » EI-EIO is unlikely to be allocated to an A330, as it was used a long time ago on a Seneca (light twin), and unless the policy about reallocations has changed, that will mean it can't be reused.
