Interesting times and good to see EI going for strategic growth
EI will
do 2x daily to. ORD BOS NYC from DUB year round , Novair Scandinavia will take
a 330 and further news on other winter plans
EI will likely go EWR for
extra flights as a few posters have copped that JFK terminal 5 is out of the
question of course this does rule Cork out for nw but brings in Bfs as well as
SNn interesting and of course close parter UA will be party to the plans
The idea that EI will go 2x daily year round on ORD/BOS/JFK would rule out the 757 increasing SNN-JFK/BOS, as only 3 aircraft are being sourced.
EI wont offer any Ireland-Newark flights; any extra flights to New York will be to JFK. It isnt cost effective to split operations between EWR and JFK.
Other forums are saying the 757's are ex Finnair, so are about 12 years old, but are in an all economy layout. It should be interesting to see what layout EI will equip these aircraft with!
Purely speculation, but ive heard the 3x 757s will operate with 2 aircraft being based in SNN for SNN-JFK and SNN-BOS, and the 3rd aircraft operating DUB-YYZ 4 weekly, and either DUB-ORD or DUB-JFK.
Removing the 330 from Shannon, and reducing ORD to a daily 330 operation, would free up 1.5 330's, as mentioned by other posters, which I would hope, would be used to launch West Coast!
The 757s operating from SNN, would have a decent amount of ground time in SNN, BOS and JFK, which means that with some schedule changes, they could easily utilise one of the aircraft on SNN-FAO next summer, or try SNN-AGP