Don`t know too many people in the San Francisco bay area who chose to fly via ORD to Ireland. They usually take a direct service to Heathrow and connect onwards to Cork, Dublin, Belfast, so I doubt the EI ORD service would be greatly affected by a reinstatement of the SFO-DUB service.
Regarding the EI Gold Circle scheme, it`s a joke now. I used to fly EI every month but now I increasingly use other airlines who actually credit my travel in their frequent flyer schemes!
Last edited by CCR; 27th Feb 2013 at 12:02.