There only hope is another US major, but they are all bleeding heavily from the neck so its not likely. Its both fantastic and bizarre that Etihad have devoted 10 flights a week to Dublin, we can only hope this continues.
Sadly this has been a result of bad government policy that for the past 10 years has been very US centric when we should have been doing some serious relationship building with China, India, Pakistan, Brazil and Russia as well. We missed a tremendous opportunity there - other european nations such as the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavian countries had their fingers on the pulse and devoted the time and effort to build relations with these countries. Its paying off for them. Ten years ago we from an aviation perspective we could have said they needed us more than we needed them. Now the tables have turned big time and we are essentially ******. The Americans now have a government that cares about american people - jobs for americans etc, and with the decline of the Irish presence in US politics (e.g. death of Ted Kennedy etc) its a bit of a no brainer where this will leave us. The days of calling up a senior diplomat of Irish decent looking for deals to be struck has long run out