Originally Posted by
Expressflight
The reality is that last year's 3 x E195 first wave departures have simply been replaced by 3 x B738 departures so not a huge increase in pax numbers as is being suggested.
Although the increase in pax is surely much greater than it looks, the old BE DUB flight was quite often fairly lightly loaded on the 06:30 run in my experience. On a few occasions more people took the MAN flight, I know because DUB often boarded first even though it was a few mins later. The GLA Route also had weak loads and it was a lot later. I’d suggest the first wave average from the E195s was about 160 pax, FR will surely be knocking up more like 450 within a much more concentrated timeframe.