Aer Lingus Fleet/ Routes Discussion Pt 2 (ALL possible routes included)

In this article by the Irish independent, Kenny Jacobs said San Diego was a likely route for Dublin Airport, and Aer Lingus seems the only candidate for this route:

https://m.independent.ie/business/dublin-airport-could-breach-passenger-cap-by-two-million-next-year-says-daa-boss/a528385897.html

Thanks. So are you saying this is probably nonsense to get the cap removed?

Oh OK, thanks for that. Sorry, I wasn’t aware.

Normally another aircraft goes down to replace wonder why it's not the case this time

I have Family in South Africa & go at least twice a year. There’s no way there’s enough traffic to fill a long range plane from Ireland to SA. Even Singapore airlines do South Africa, stopping off in Joburg before heading onto CPT, & visa versa on their return journey.

If Singapore Airlines cannot fill a plane to either destination then AL have no chance. AL even tried a seasonal to CPT before, & didn’t work.

Honestly, where does your fantasy speculation end?
Beirut

Brazil

Mexico

New Delhi

Addis Ababa

South Africa

Please, realise there’s executives paid big salaries to source potential routes.

I used to enjoy reading input by people on here who are in the know. Now the thread is becoming boring in the extreme.

I would think it unlikely they would launch San Diego any time soon, it would need a twin aisle aircraft for a start, also going off these figures, the PAX numbers at least, are low…

"I've looked into DUB-LAS. The most recent useful data is from 2019. That year, the market had approximately 73,000 roundtrip point-to-point passengers, making it DUB's largest unserved US market - not bad! It was twice the size of #2, DEN.
And DUB was LAS's largest unserved market in Europe.
I haven't looked at fares though - only traffic. On that basis, it's quite exciting.
Hope it helps,
James Pearson"

So demand is probably only somewhere in the 20-30,000 figure…

Where have I implied You speculated on routes being served by AL? I was referring to the ‘Dublin routes News & general chat’ forum. You last posted there at 17h02 yesterday, but now speculating on this Forum, unless there’s a second Touistx73.

Between both Forums You have speculated destination after destination. No offence intended but just believe there are companies paying BIG money to source destinations.

Yes, Beirut and Mexico City was a mess up on my part, 0 chance of that. But the others have a good chance, considering they all have airlines interested in operating them, DAA specifically stated that they are in talks with airlines to fly to Brazil and India, and they are top priority for new long haul. And Addis was served orepandemic, and Ethiopian said recently that they plan to serve DUB again once they get slots, which they have. I don’t think I’m being too unreasonable, but this is an Aer Lingus thread, so if you want to engage further, please do so in the Dublin routes general chat.

No chance of Aer Lingus doing ADD. Very little O&D, probably poor yields. It works for Ethiopian because they funnel people through their hub in Addis. Ethiopian will likely serve this route again, Aer Lingus, not a chance.
Ethiopian mentioned in 2023 in an interview with Simple Flying that they planned to relaunch flights to Dublin, subject to slots, but that they didn’t receive them. They applied again this year and got slots for 2025. The route was only stopped because of the pandemic

https://simpleflying.com/ethiopian-airlines-european-expansion-plans-revealed/

So now Touristx73 had not only hijacked both threads, he's moderating them too! 🙄

If I said nothing and kept the conversation going, you’d probably complain about me posting in the wrong thread.

Genuinely, how have I hijacked either thread, yes, I made some wacky suggestions on the other one, but I since apologised and withdrew them, and this thread Ive only posted in like 5 times

Fair, they said 3 new A321 TA routes, so probably YUL, based on the fact that they planned that one before, they did say one would be unexpected, so it could be something else. Maybe IND was the unexpected one though? Not an expert, just think YUL seems to have the best chance

Just to clarify, AL never operated to CPT. An Irish travel agent chartered the then LTU to do it with a 767 (tech stop) then later an A330 (direct). Great link to have but very seasonal, almost all leisure and apparently quite high over flight charges from various sub Saharan countries which didn't offer any real ATC service.

There is no ATC service over most of Africa. Every time anyone has tried to install RADAR heads, VHF antennas etc, they get stolen.

I know that Lufthansa have to all four Pilots on the flight deck for the full duration of their passage through unctorolled airspace, all exterior lights on, regular broadcasts on guard and intership frequencies.

I'm not sure what if any ATC charges there are, but the insurance costs are extortionate due the uncontrolled element.