Who actually wants the Dublin Airport passenger cap abolished?

I could hit the ferry, although that would cost me or my employer a lot more than flying. There are many many flights that are taken every single day that simply don't need to happen with our abilities to run online meetings. A qualified person over there should be able to fix a machine or system just as well as an Irish person.

It's true, if the planes don't come here they go to Manchester/Glasgow/London - but what if they can't go there either?

With any luck allowing the cap to be raised only after infrastructure is built should bring about faster deployment of infrastructure. I think the greens were wrong to blankly oppose raising the cap but what if they said the cap raised when the metro or the Western M50 is built? Your 25 years could become 2.5 years and then everybody wins

Sailrail is a brilliant idea in theory although you are losing a huge portion of your day travelling, if you arrive on the last ferry into hollyhead I believe I checked once that it was 10 hours to London?

The price is not bad at €58 each way and as you say largely comparable to Ryanair in many respects. Checking the online booking though there's not many times left. If I wanted to go next weekend for example I'd have to be leaving Dublin Port at 5.45 on the Friday and leaving hollyhead at 1am on the Saturday night/sunday morning

Again I repeat that if you tax aviation fuel the price of flying goes up, certainly, but so too does the price of every other form of transport. Pull the taxes on sailrail/trains etc and then you might have a winner

We live on an island you spastic, I think it's time for your COVID booster.

Restrict yourself don't expect others to play your silly game

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Is that one-way? What about the return leg? You wouldn't be misrepresenting the actual cost, by any chance, by leaving out half the journey?

Here's the same day return flights……cheaper all round, even if you're only counting one leg. Cheapest flight on the day is €39. How is €59 cheaper than that? What about food and drink while you're doing all that travelling?

I did. Same date, flights are cheaper, not to mention hours shorter. You could be home and all after your meeting in London before the Holyhead train arrives after spending about 7hrs travelling. Perhaps you should look in the mirror before accusing anyone of making big claims?

Maybe I'm doing something wrong then as only the 19:45 is showing up with availability for me? Did you remember to pick ferry&rail as opposed to just ferry on the first page?

Checking the trainline (as that's the only reference I have to go off for British trains, if you have a better one I'm all ears) for the 18th. In fairness you're not actually far off it's coming in at 4hrs from Hollyhead to London for the connection for most sailings, the exceptions being the last 2 sailings where it takes 5h34 on the 17:20 train and for the last sailing you're waiting for the 7:46 train the following morning

Won't suit for a weekend break but if you're going for a week or 2 or travelling for work those hours won't make much of a difference if you're not living in Dublin.

I'm assuming all things equal, if you're not living in Dublin it definitely won't suit but neither will leaving from Dublin Airport and obviously both ships and airplanes are subject to delays etc

The last time I left my house in Limerick for London at 6am and was sipping coffee in Borough Market at 10am but that's the beauty of Shannon and the convenient connectivity of Stansted to Southwark. If I was doing Dublin Airport the Sail/Rail might be as fast

Also with regards to the price, are you forgetting about the cabin booking on the ferry?

Not everyone getting the Ferry is going to London.

Worked in place that did a support run to Preston and the guy doing it used to take the ferry because he was Dublin South and crossing the city, parking queuing in the airport hiring a car etc was slower than getting the Ferry at that time. I did the run by airport and spent most of the day sitting around in airports.

That's was then. Probably been out outsourced to China or AI does it now.

Yes, since Aer Lingus dropped the route- which was routinely at capacity. It’s three times the fare now though, although afaik the flights are still full. A 6am flyer is not traditionally a tourist, that’s a business traveler.

I think the 10% want cheaper and more flights and stuff the 90%. You can't really hear Dublin airport noise from Spain.