domestics like donegal and kerry can do this i think
There was a man providing connections the last time I flew in on the evening flight from Kerry. I overhead him saying, "Do you have any bags checked in?" to the person. It would be good if the advertised it, as there is quite a selection of evening flights that would be possible off that Kerry.
A new rule was introduced during this summer that enabled Kerry originating transit pax without checked in luggage to remain airside for transfer between T1 to T2 at DUB. Pax with checked in luggage still have to collect it and recheck in again/do security landside. I'm not sure that there is a high % of pax that benefit from this as most transit pax are long haul pax with luggage to check in. I doubt many short haul pax with no luggage will use DUB as a transit airport just to fly an hour or two to UK or Europe. They might as well drive/bus it to ORK, SNN or DUB if that's the case. Still it's a better than nothing perk for those that it does benefit.
Losing Aer Lingus Regional was a big loss for North America bound pax from Kerry in particular as they could check their luggage to their end destination at KIR, land and remain airside at T2 for transit and avoid security queues etc in DUB. I'm not sure if Donegal still enjoys this perk with Emerald.
A couple of my siblings who have travelled the KIR -DUB route midweek have said the load factor was only around 20/25% on those occasions so hopefully the weekend loads are making the route profitable!
It’s not meant to make a profit - it’s PSO.
it's not a PSO route any more, that's how the discussion came about!
https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-to-launch-unsubsidised-dublin-kerry-route-lower-fares-to-save-irish-taxpayer-e3-95m-p-a/
What's available on the KIR flight is facilitated self connections, you can't buy a single ticket that provides any guarantees of rebooking in case of a late first leg, or through checked bags, or any other elements of a normal connecting ticket.
So if somebody is self-connecting from Kerry to Dublin to Schengen (or further afield) at what point is a passport check done?
Wouldn't a proper road connection to Shannon be more useful though?
At the same point as if you have checked in online and received your boarding pass for your Schengen flight.
But you don't need a passport to fly from Kerry to Dublin. So they can't prevent you from boarding in Kerry without one. You keep quiet about having an onward ticket. Then on landing go to the self-connection area in Dublin... so is there a passport check at that stage?
Why would there be?
Theres no passport check arriving in DUB by car or bus. Your passport is only checked at the boarding gate to match your ticket and on arrival for immigration purposes in the Schengen country.
French ATC strike announced for Friday. 50% reduction in flights departing from, arriving in or overflying France will result as usual. More misery for travellers ahead I'm afraid.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.euronews.com/travel/amp/2022/09/14/severe-disruption-half-of-flights-to-and-from-france-to-be-grounded-on-friday-as-workers-s
But that's no different to checking in online and going straight through security and to your boarding gate.
You enter your passport details to check in anyway.
i was in London yesterday- flew into Stanstead. There was a policeman standing at the bottom of the stairs alighting the plane checking ( visually ) passports.
I'd say there are extra checks coming into London at the moment.
presumably if you had flown with ID only it would also have been acceptable? I know you can't with Ryanair.
There is a passport check at boarding gate in Dublin - the exact same as if you used online check-in and didn't have any bag to check-in. There's no passport checking at security
Ireland doesn't impose passport checks on exit - the only obligation is on the airline to verify you have a passport (if required by your destination country) before allowing boarding.
Looking for info about when Ryanair begin their 2023 schedule Dublin to Corfu, or when their 2022 flights to that destination began might give me a clue.
True, but Ryanair insist on passports. Not sure about a domestic flight though. I don't think Aer Lingus do, but its just easier to fly with one.
Anyone know how Cairo is doing? I might fancy a trip to the pyramids some time next year.
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But if you don't have one, you won't be allowes board. Same as if you came from landside in Dublin.
Except a passport card is in effect a passport, and we don't have national ID cards in Ireland or the UK 🙄
Driving licences are accepted on the Dublin to Kerry flights and vv. I’ve shown my driving licence in Dublin many times Ex UK and Kerry. Never one eyelid bat when accompanied with a just landed from Kerry / UK.
Interestingly enough, Aer Lingus still don't accept Passport Cards for online check-in, due to a stated "technical issue" back in 2016, which still hasn't been sorted out (aka they haven't bothered). To use a passport card with Aer Lingus these days, your only option is to check-in at the desk in the airport itself.
I have my (full) passport details saved on my phone, I think actually the app remembers them too… so online check in is no problem. You can then just travel with the small version.
While Ryanair have announced a few new winter routes ex Dublin there appears to be little else on the horizon, anyone know what the winter schedule to the USA is looking like? any further potential routes that might happen?
Semi-related to the above, I've noticed that it's no longer possible to use a passport card to travel on a Ryanair flight from the UK to Ireland – you need to use the full paper passport.
My first thought was that this was Brexit, but then I realised that since Irish citizens don't legally require a passport to travel between UK/Ireland it seems a bit unnecessary.
They accepted them at the weekend there just gone, a good few travelling to Scotland for the Ireland game used them. No issues
It wasn't possible to use for an online check-in from LGW to DUB yesterday.
