Dublin routes news and general chat

Just came across this place the other day, LFVP, about 145 Nm west of St John Nova Scotia!! It's the airport of Saint-Pierre, on the French Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, hence the LF designator. As someone else said, every days a school day!

US prohibition was a great time :D

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tiny-french-archipelago-became-americas-illegal-warehouse-during-prohibition-180967868/

While not all to the same airport, Paris has 5 airlines serving it:

Air France & Aer Lingus - CDG

Transavia & Vueling - ORY

Ryanair - BVA

I would imagine with the very large Irish diaspora in Toronto has a bearing on the number of flights. The Canadian airlines would have connections to other parts of Canada and Northern USA. Finally, three of the aircraft used are narrow bodies with lower capacity - A321N (Air Transat & EI) and 737 Max (West Jet).

And the aircraft will then operate a no doubt full holiday flight from Southampton to Alicante.

The flight from Dublin is effectively a positioning flight to operate holiday flights from Southampton, and they might as well operate it in service.

Be interesting if Norse add something new but I'm not overly enthusiastic about them either way, so far their decision making feels like a bad case of deja vu.

Looking at the current US served airports, daily JFK, LAX and x5 MCO or FLL assuming full ultlisation of the slots. Nothing to risky and well established routes.

If they surrive long term or not is another issue. They might be a bigger problem for Aer Lingus than Norwegian with the MAX services.

Some more detailed speculation as to what may happen with those slots....

20x weekly slots is quite a lot. Will be interesting to see if they do anything with them.

Theres speculation in the article about Norse opening a Berlin->Dubai route. Its probably an extreme long shot but if they launched a DUB->DXB route it would be very interesting, Emirates' fares for the direct flight have shot up in the last few years - they're approx 650eur for any given non peak travel in economy now, vs 400eur a few years ago (or 350eur flying with a connection today).

https://www.lavozdeasturias.es/noticia/asturias/2022/06/22/ryanair-viajara-dublin-bruselas-roma-dusseldorf-londres-oferta-19-euros/00031655899059282668763.htm

Ryanair will travel from Asturias to Dublin, Brussels, Rome, Düsseldorf and London with an offer of 19 euros

But Flybe had Heathrow slots so those must have gone somewhere

Don't think this was mentioned on here before, but next summer TUI will start flying Dublin to Cancun.

https://ittn.ie/news/non-stop-flights-from-dublin-to-cancun-kick-off-in-june-2023-with-tui/

ah but the tacos....😂

I went to Cancun in my early 20s, its absolutely not possible to overestimate how much American college girls like Irish accents. Its an experience/holiday I recommend to any and all Irish people to do while young and single, its incredible fun.

I've also done plenty of summer holidays to European destinations in my youth, including Magaluf. If you're comparing the two I'm guessing you've haven't personally been to either because they're completely different in terms of beaches, accommodation options, food, nationalities of other tourists around you, nightlife style, culture/historical things to visit in the area etc.