Dublin routes news and general chat

Tabnabs wrote: »

Rygge is now a signifiant airfield for the RNoAF.

On another note, ARN is consistently the cheapest destination of the three capital cities that SAS fly to, and the least popular for "locals" to transit through.

Rygge was always a RNoAF airfield and they still own that whole chunk of land. They just leased out a small bit of it to a civilian operator to open & run Rygge Airport. Once you pushed off the terminal on your plane, you were on RNoAF's base, and using their runway :pac:

Compared to other Ryanair hubs I've been to, Rygge wasn't half bad and would sometimes be the option I'd go for to get back to DUB (if the price was right). The terminal is right on the side of the motorway meaning that bus would get you there from Oslo city fairly quickly (Nothing compared to the trip to "Oslo" Torp, and not that much longer than the trip to the main OSL airport)

But Oslo folk do tend to go for DY & SK, and sometimes Ryanair's prices were not that competitive really. I remember a couple of occasions where DY's price from OSL to DUB was good deal less than Ryanair's RYG to DUB. Rygge was mostly popular with people lived in the surrounding counties and towns of Moss, Fredrikstad & Sarpsborg. I guess that wasn't enough to coax Ryanair to stick with their base (and the mentioned taxes).

They are still in Norway though. They operate in "Oslo" Torp and also at OSL (some limited flights there).

toushea wrote: »

EgyptAir starting Cairo direct 4 days a week over summer starting June 5th.

www.dublinairport.com/latest-news/2020/01/13/egyptair-to-launch-new-dublin-cairo-service

So I started a new thread four days back for announcements only, but it promptly dropped off the radar

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=112239307

FWIW, these flights are not loaded yet; as of the present no schedules have been announced. I could see myself using these flights if the times are sensible; it'll depend on what happens.

(Separately, I've noticed that Egyptair's booking site doesn't work in either Chrome or Safari. I wonder if they lose much business because of that...)

Shn99 wrote: »

Works fine for me on both, on iPhone and iPad

Are you sure? I've just tried on my phone (had been using the computer until now) and I can't select a departure city. It tells me to use a popup that never appears, and clicking on the plane icon next to the box gives me three empty popup menus.

toushea wrote: »

EgyptAir starting Cairo direct 4 days a week over summer starting June 5th.

www.dublinairport.com/latest-news/2020/01/13/egyptair-to-launch-new-dublin-cairo-service

They don't seem to be on their website yet.

Egypt Air Schedule (Tu, Th, Sa, Su)

Ex Cairo 09.20-14.20
Ex Dublin (T1) 15.20-21.50

Notice El Al will be using T2 for TLV.

EI321 wrote: »

Cathay's return on March 28th confirmed, 4x per week:

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/cathay-pacific-to-resume-dublin-hong-kong-flights-in-march-1.4149416

What sort of scheduling had they prior to the winter cancellation? Was it daily?

Eastern to begin Dublin-Durham.

Give it a few weeks until the magical FR flights bracket it on each side

cson wrote: »

Doubtful given Stobart own part of MME, they won't want to let the fox into the hen house.

They can't stop them though!

https://www.dublinairport.com/latest-news/2020/01/29/dublin-airport-welcomed-32.9m-passengers-in-2019


32.9 million pax in 2019!!

Technically, it has now exceeded the maximum capacity of 32 million pax that it has planning for!

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

What are the December figures? There was a slight decline in passenger numbers in November.

Based on my calculations 2.3 million travelled through the airport in December which was the same as December 2018. I'm happy to be corrected on that though. I'd expect figures for January and March to be down about 1% with February flat due to the leap year. Then growth again from April.

Great achievement for 2019. Onwards and upwards!

Air traffic is down across Europe due to the collapse of certain airlines and the scaling back of flights at others.. Also the lack of Max aircraft in the skies is further hampering the ability of many airlines to grow.

as said, the max issues and delayed deliveries arent helping. Uk traffic was still up one percent last year... I expect similar % growth this year, assuming it was closer to 5% growth, than 4%?

ongarboy wrote: »

Not a route update but DUB to get major revamp of food and beverage offerings.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/british-operator-picks-up-500m-contract-to-run-dublin-airport-outlets-1.4162526

... so will we lose McDonalds?????

IngazZagni wrote: »

Based on my calculations 2.3 million travelled through the airport in December which was the same as December 2018. I'm happy to be corrected on that though. I'd expect figures for January and March to be down about 1% with February flat due to the leap year. Then growth again from April. H

Great achievement for 2019. Onwards and upwards!

L1011 wrote: »

That area of T1 is grim beyond belief; so anything at all to make it a bit livelier would be good.

Go upstairs to where Burger King is and it’s beyond appalling.