Originally Posted by
owenc
United was too expensive, and it did work. I think one year they carried 90,000 passengers, then it decreased thereafter for whatever reason. I think it would be hard to compete with Dublin's 7 daily flights to NYC.
Expensive and the cost of operating the flight with crew on long serving contracts, hotel, transport... all adds up. Numbers started to decrease 2/3 years before they left when flights reduced in winter followed by suspension for 12 weeks.