Interline Agreement
It is also difficult to fully gauge the extent of TA connections through Dublin when the Cork-US price includes a premium for the interline (i.e. it is by nature more expensive than the sum of the price of the two individual legs to Dublin and onward). This makes it difficult to attract any leisure passengers via the interline agreement and indeed many frequent travellers use the Dublin connection but using two tickets. A secondary reason given is the interline option offered is not the preferred flight option e.g. the 7am or 8am (at weekends) Cork Dublin flight is often shown in combination with the evening Dublin JFK service and not the mid-morning EI 105. There is no doubt that some recent fine tuning has improved this (with the RE 602 now to leave at 0650) and as already said a bit of marketing would not go amiss.
Last edited by EI 706; 27th Sep 2008 at 22:36.