Originally Posted by EI-AAA
Unfortunately the DUB/IAD service never made money.Indeed it was not much better than the BWI service. Business travel was very poor, I believe even the Irish Ambassador traveled in Y.
Still never say never, with the interline agreement with UA and possible new alliance, along with the end of the recession, thinks might be different. I hope so!
Thats it like, if they did join Star Alliance then they'd have a much better chance of making the IAD route a success. What went wrong the last time was the same thing that went wrong with the Dubai route - timings. They were piss poor timings, meaning you couldn't get decent connections through IAD, and the Washington staff were actually telling Aer Lingus management this and they did nothing.
You only need to look at how much of a success the Abu Dhabi-Dublin route is for Etihad to see what good timings can do for a route.