Dublin routes news and general chat

Slashermcguirk · 12-09-2019 9:56am

I think Dublin airport might exceed 33 million passengers this year

Marcusm · 12-09-2019 11:12am

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Route to stop in November and will reopen as normal in March.

https://fora.ie/cathay-pacific-suspending-dublin-hong-kong-4805679-Sep2019/

Intended to repoprn in March. Cathay has seen worldwide passenger volumes decease by nearly 40% over the past three months. There are greater systemic challenges at play that the Dublin routes and the daytime European routes which it has suspended.

trellheim · 12-09-2019 12:18pm

Is it people avoiding HK due to the protests ?

basill · 12-09-2019 12:20pm

People need to understand yield versus load factor. There is absolutely no point quoting that a flight was full. Filling a flight with backpackers on discounted fares is not going to make any money. Cathay is full service and has the costs associated with that. It needs high rev up front, belly cargo and yield down the back to turn a profit. It needs to do this across its entire network. Cathay as an airline is suffering financially as part of the wider Swire Group and has been struggling for at least the last 5 years. The current HK unrest is just adding fuel to the fire. I would expect it needs to restructure in order to survive and cut capacity.

Slashermcguirk · 12-09-2019 1:20pm

Yes I understand yield vs load factor. A lot of business people use that route and business class always full. I dont think it tends to be a backpacker type route from people I know that travel it frequently

12-09-2019 2:30pm

I imagine that things will get a lot better once the longer runway is available. Airlines will be able to carry more freight as it doesn't give out on social media when its delayed or offloaded. Cathay and others have had to leave cargo behind on occasions.

errlloyd · 13-09-2019 7:29pm

Slashermcguirk wrote: »

Yes I understand yield vs load factor. A lot of business people use that route and business class always full. I dont think it tends to be a backpacker type route from people I know that travel it frequently

I think it's always much cheaper to fly non direct to KL as a backpacker. Once there you're at an AirAsia hub.

HTCOne · 14-09-2019 9:44am

Read elsewhere Cathay's forward bookings are down 40% across the network vs this time last year.

Van.Bosch · 19-09-2019 7:39pm

Anyone know what’s up with TC-JRU? Operated IST-DUB this evening and landed 20 minutes late, was due to be a 1630 departure but now seems to be cancelled? A 20 min delay would hardly cos the crew to go out of hours would it?

ongarboy · 19-09-2019 9:25pm

Surprised to hear an ad on Radio One's Morning Ireland this morning for Cathay Pacific and offering flights to the east if it's been suspended for the winter.

Artane2002 · 19-09-2019 9:29pm

Van.Bosch wrote: »

Anyone know what’s up with TC-JRU? Operated IST-DUB this evening and landed 20 minutes late, was due to be a 1630 departure but now seems to be cancelled? A 20 min delay would hardly cos the crew to go out of hours would it?

My guess is it's gone tech? That flight regularly lands 20+ minutes late (usually on time to 15 mins late though) but it still operates the outbound. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be an A330 replacement on tomorrow's morning flight, that sometimes happens when one of the flights is cancelled. At the moment it looks like the morning flight will have a 737-800 and an A321neo on the afternoon one but last minute swaps can happen I suppose, just like both of my return flights a month ago!

john boye · 19-09-2019 10:06pm

ongarboy wrote: »

Surprised to hear an ad on Radio One's Morning Ireland this morning for Cathay Pacific and offering flights to the east if it's been suspended for the winter.

Heard it on Today Fm earlier. They're LFs are apparently down across the board with the recent protests so they're probably trying to get any kind of business they can.

WishUWereHere · 19-09-2019 10:49pm

ongarboy wrote: »

Surprised to hear an ad on Radio One's Morning Ireland this morning for Cathay Pacific and offering flights to the east if it's been suspended for the winter.

I also heard that ad.

Hotblack Desiato · 20-09-2019 12:35am

Mortelaro wrote: »

By coincidence I booked cx306 yesterday with Avios in J for just next month
That should be the crack

Had the pleasure some years back of going on honeymoon on CX in J to HKG and on to SYD

Only thing that would have made it perfect was going direct from DUB avoiding the hop over to LHR in cattle class.

Noxegon · 20-09-2019 5:59pm

My flight is boarded and ready to go, but we’ve just been given a 1h15 slot delay. The sooner the second runway is ready the better.

davebuck · 20-09-2019 6:21pm

Noxegon wrote: »

My flight is boarded and ready to go, but we’ve just been given a 1h15 slot delay. The sooner the second runway is ready the better.

Unfortunately it looks like late 2021 or early 2022 before the new runway is in use so another 2 peak summers of delays etc. :mad:

Locker10a · 20-09-2019 7:23pm

Noxegon wrote: »

My flight is boarded and ready to go, but we’ve just been given a 1h15 slot delay. The sooner the second runway is ready the better.

Is the slot from Dublin or enroute ?

basill · 20-09-2019 7:34pm

It will be an enroute slot. Nonsense that Cathay will be delayed 1.15 in Dublin due to runway capacity.

Noxegon · 20-09-2019 8:54pm

basill wrote: »

It will be an enroute slot. Nonsense that Cathay will be delayed 1.15 in Dublin due to runway capacity.

Hmm, not sure where you got Cathay from.

Was FR to Krakow. The time came forward quite radically fortunately - though we still arrived an hour late

HTCOne · 20-09-2019 11:43pm

Noxegon wrote: »

Hmm, not sure where you got Cathay from.

Was FR to Krakow. The time came forward quite radically fortunately - though we still arrived an hour late

An en-route slot so. Airspace is saturated over central Europe

n32 · 23-09-2019 8:02pm

flew united airlines to newark last week on dreamliner. have to say it is a top class product on offer from united. great food and IFE and the flight gets into newark at 11am which is perfect to making the most of the day when you land.
i have to say the dreamliner (787-100) is a beautiful aircraft to fly on compared to some other transatlantic planes that are showing their age a bit.

grimm2005 · 25-09-2019 12:25pm

https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-launches-irish-summer-20-schedule-160-routes-on-sale-now/?fbclid=IwAR1qAYanfkYyoQFfArkup9mQS7ProT8mOvzzUIyIyvesyClQP2bbBj_3sRA

4 New Dublin Routes To Marseille, Palanga, Podgorica & Verona
Ryanair, Ireland’s No.1 airline, today (25 Sept) launched its Irish Summer 2020 schedule, with 160 routes in total, including 4 new Dublin routes Marseille, Palanga, Podgorica and Verona, and 3 new summer services from Cork to Katowice and from Dublin to Billund and Toulouse, which will deliver 17.2m customers p.a. and support 12,900* jobs at Dublin, Shannon, Cork, Knock and Kerry airports.

Slashermcguirk · 25-09-2019 1:08pm

grimm2005 wrote: »

https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-launches-irish-summer-20-schedule-160-routes-on-sale-now/?fbclid=IwAR1qAYanfkYyoQFfArkup9mQS7ProT8mOvzzUIyIyvesyClQP2bbBj_3sRA

4 New Dublin Routes To Marseille, Palanga, Podgorica & Verona
Ryanair, Ireland’s No.1 airline, today (25 Sept) launched its Irish Summer 2020 schedule, with 160 routes in total, including 4 new Dublin routes Marseille, Palanga, Podgorica and Verona, and 3 new summer services from Cork to Katowice and from Dublin to Billund and Toulouse, which will deliver 17.2m customers p.a. and support 12,900* jobs at Dublin, Shannon, Cork, Knock and Kerry airports.

Great to see Marseille on the list, very under rated city in my opinion. Also gives you access to lovely spots like Avignon, Aix en provence, arles and others. I flew direct to marseille this year with aer lingus and the flights were pretty full

Slashermcguirk · 25-09-2019 1:10pm

n32 wrote: »

flew united airlines to newark last week on dreamliner. have to say it is a top class product on offer from united. great food and IFE and the flight gets into newark at 11am which is perfect to making the most of the day when you land.
i have to say the dreamliner (787-100) is a beautiful aircraft to fly on compared to some other transatlantic planes that are showing their age a bit.

I agree, I flew that route recently and it was great. Both flights were overbooked though and they were trying to move passengers to another flight. Very popular route

rivegauche · 25-09-2019 1:15pm

grimm2005 wrote: »

https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-launches-irish-summer-20-schedule-160-routes-on-sale-now/?fbclid=IwAR1qAYanfkYyoQFfArkup9mQS7ProT8mOvzzUIyIyvesyClQP2bbBj_3sRA

4 New Dublin Routes To Marseille, Palanga, Podgorica & Verona
Ryanair, Ireland’s No.1 airline, today (25 Sept) launched its Irish Summer 2020 schedule, with 160 routes in total, including 4 new Dublin routes Marseille, Palanga, Podgorica and Verona, and 3 new summer services from Cork to Katowice and from Dublin to Billund and Toulouse, which will deliver 17.2m customers p.a. and support 12,900* jobs at Dublin, Shannon, Cork, Knock and Kerry airports.

I think Stuttgart is gone.

IngazZagni · 25-09-2019 1:42pm

rivegauche wrote: »

I think Stuttgart is gone.

That was dropped in June and replaced with a new service to Milan Malpensa. Capacity on the Cologne route was also increased this winter.

Impressive route network Ryanair has from Dublin now.

kevinandrew · 25-09-2019 7:20pm

Verona, Marseille and Toulouse? Sooner or later Aer Lingus is going to find every one of their short haul routes facing competition from Ryanair.

Nice to see Palanga, a lot of Lithuanian passengers heading home to the costal cities have been using Kaunas which is a good 2-3 hour drive away.

Jamie2k9 · 25-09-2019 8:19pm

kevinandrew wrote: »

Verona, Marseille and Toulouse? Sooner or later Aer Lingus is going to find every one of their short haul routes facing competition from Ryanair.

Nice to see Palanga, a lot of Lithuanian passengers heading home to the costal cities have been using Kaunas which is a good 2-3 hour drive away.

Ryanair have pulled out or MRS and VRN before (MRS 3+ times) and Aer Lingus have continued.

davebuck · 25-09-2019 8:55pm

Is the long awaited proposed interline agreement between Aer Lingus and Ryanair dead in the water now or just on hold? seems to be radio silence on this for a while now...

Idbatterim · 25-09-2019 9:04pm

I really hope JetBlue make a go of things in 2021 when they start flying to london. The largest budget airline in the world i believe ryanair. Dublin perfectly positioned for far more transatlantic business than it currently attracts. The infrastructure is certainly an issue at present. But there are other airports like helsinki, for passengers heading east, that have far more transfer traffic than dublin.

https://skift.com/2019/04/10/jetblue-is-flying-to-europe-breaking-down-the-competition/

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