Dublin routes news and general chat

Cathay won’t be back until the cap is lifted, and besides, Cathay have their own issues at the moment so not necessarily the cap holding them back.

Cap makes it increasingly difficult for anything to be added in the short term. I saw on a group this afternoon that American Airlines are restarting Charlotte in February next year. It was March this year. 2025 will have a month extra of the service.

I’m not sure on Singapore, but I have a vague memory of restrictions on 28L10R being a factor in MAN getting the Singapore-MAN- Houston, rather than DUB, at the time, open to correction on that. If I have recalled that correctly, it would be a true example of what’s ahead, e.g. routes lost to the cap, may not come back when it’s lifted as they’ve already established a good thing elsewhere.

The A359 can get off a wet 28L/10R at MTOW so that isn’t a factor for SIA.

The cap is likely to be damaging to the national economy for quite some time by the looks of it unfortunately.

Yes, discussed here last week, but for some reason posters put it in threads other than the Dublin Routes one. 🤔

Rumour on the ramp, I know I know, is that BA Euroflyer will take over the Gatwick later this year when they have spare aircraft.

Yes TUI call it this. The argument about its name was done to death on social media when they first announced its use a few years ago. They use it specifically to connect in to their cruises out of Port Canaveral. I think they get a better deal from the airport to use it.

Was cycling around the airport today and the Emirates flight landed. I stopped to watch it leave the runway and taxi past me. I looked up at the cockpit and the pilot was waving to me. I waved back and gave him a thumbs up. I’m 51 but it brightened my day up 🙂

For the 10am announcement, yea I would of thought EI would do their own PR. Would be great if it was something out of the blue and possibly serve potential traffic demand… Air India or Vistara, to Mumbai or Delhi, Singapore Airlines to Singapore, LATAM to Sao Paolo, even dare I say it… Qantas to Perth… It would certainly add more competition to the ME 3 carriers… You only have to look back at this article to understand anything is possible… https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/kenny-jacobs-world-airlines-want-to-come-to-dublin-airport-but-a-passenger-cap-means-we-are-turning-them-away/a1121732715.html

Air India and Vistara are now merged. Do think we’ll see AI in Dublin, prob with a Delhi service once they have the available airframes…

You've just made me realise while reading your post that it must be the new food outlet they've been building in T2 arrivals. O'Briens sandwiches and whatever other brands they're paired with, they're always called 'An Oasis of taste'.

Well if they wanted to piss off QR they certainly would.

Qantas' latest results show that PER - LHR is one of Qantas' most profitable routes.

The RASK rose by 5% on the route in contrast to falling RASK across it's network.

Apparently FCO and CDG are also doing well…so much so Qantas has talked about turning FCO to year round route and CDG to daily. Probably ATH is next and then either FRA or AMS.

But its very Australian driven point of sale and very driven by an Australian mindset that's used to travelling long distances to get anywhere. To put in perspective how an Australian looks at it, PER - FCO is averaging 15Hrs 40, LAX to MEL is currently 15 hrs 55.

The one to watch will be Turkish's nonstop Sydney service which commences in 2026. The latest A350-1000 builds can do this non stop.

The last statistic's I saw are over ten years old now and were from Australia's BITRE, but Ireland - Australia traffic was the No 6 European destination (after UK, France, Italy, Germany then Greece) with traffic averaging approx. 400 passengers each way per week. It's only grown since then.

Knock to Groningen (north of Netherlands), once per week next summer

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonas-van-dorp-0084306_knock-atr72-groningen-activity-7247186166989434880-vO6t

Not doing any harm to post the odd new route for knock now is it? Not as if there’s new routes announced every day.