Dublin routes news and general chat

domestics like donegal and kerry can do this i think

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 a PSO route any more, that's how the discussion came about!

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.

At the same point as if you have checked in online and received your boarding pass for your Schengen flight.

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.

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'd say there are extra checks coming into London at the moment.

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.

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.

Except a passport card is in effect a passport, and we don't have national ID cards in Ireland or the 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.

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?

They accepted them at the weekend there just gone, a good few travelling to Scotland for the Ireland game used them. No issues