Think I saw Aurignys Ejet at DUB this morning - not due to start for a month though?
I see Air Canada have published their summer DUB schedule:
YYZ daily B77L (always a rare bird in pax configuration, especially so now).
YVR 4 x weekly B788.
YUL 3 x weekly B788.
Any sign of Air Transat or Westjet returning?
Finally going ahead after launch delayed by the pandemic.
A pet peeve is media outlets not using the correct aircraft image with their story, it's operated by an A321 in case anyone is thrown by the B787 in the pic.
Don't look at the Dublin Airport instagram so! :)
Yes Air Transat will be back with their NEO according to their website timetable, I think it starts 2/3x per week and tops out at 5x per week.
Irish Times finding out that booking last min tickets are more expensive than tickets bought in advance.
Context... context.
Well when you consider Wizz air are offering flights for free…
Ryanair will be sending humanitarian cargo to Lublin tomorrow for free.
Also Ryanair launching Santiago De Compostella starting the end of this month.
https://ittn.ie/featured/british-airways-adds-new-route-from-dublin-to-southampton/
Cracking journalism to add a picture of an A380!
Fairly useless as it's only 1x weekly. It's basically just a positioning flight for the aircraft that they said they might as well sell tickets for.
They've done the same thing with 1x weekly flights the last few summers (excluding 2020 and 2021). As far as I remember it was Manchester in 2019 and Ibiza in 2018.
Every little helps!
It’s BA Cityflyer utilising the aircraft and crew while LCY is shut, flying out of Dublin on Saturday morning, and returning on Sunday morning.
Can Lufthansa really afford three flights from Frankfurt to Dublin on a dreary Wednesday off-season with the price of oil the way it is at the moment.
It can afford them if the flights are commercially viable. Have you got information to the contrary?
Remember that the prime purpose of those flights is to feed into/out of Lufthansa’s network at Frankfurt, rather than point-to-point traffic.
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/vigourtimes.com/ethiopian-airlines-eyes-new-dublin-route-via-uk/amp/
Westjet announce resumption of YHZ-DUB on top of previously announcef YYZ-DUB (which I believe they were due to start in S20 but didn't due COVID). Haven't seen anything about resuming YYC-DUB but stand to be corrected.
YYC-DUB is due to start back on May 8th according to Google Flights
Canada has the worst airport codes going!
Many of them (YYZ And YYC) go back to the two letter Morse code assigned to the local “railroad” station, but with a Y put in front of them.
Sadly not always obvious!
Fukuoka, Sioux Gateway, and Perm might beg to disagree.
Anyone know what the story is with the LOT Warsaw route?
Doesn't seem to be bookable and was a few days ago
At least they're memorable, which the Canadian ones aren't.
Everyday’s a school day.
For the 4 digit icao codes, Ireland uses EIXX, the UK uses EGxx, Germany uses EDXX.
The pattern seems to be E for Europe, then country letter then two letters for the airport . Why don’t France follow this protocol ? LFPG etc.
Why do separate codes exist for IATA and ICAO?
I know IATA are used to route bags etc DUB, ORK, LCY.
IATA are used for IFR flights, ie, pilot enters EIDW to navigate to Dublin.
Am I wrong or right 😂?
Exxx is Northern Europe, Lxxx is southern. Spain is LExx, Italy LIxx etc.
Some countries are so large they get a regional letter (ie the first letter) to themselves, such as the US or Canada.
ICAO is the global regulator/rulemaker and 4 letter codes are official, IATA designators are only used effectively by the airlines themselves. IATA are an airline lobbying group, their recommendations (note not rules) carry little weight.
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