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Old 11th May 2014, 16:50
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Cyrano
 
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Originally Posted by Una Due Tfc
I think it's 4x weekly in the winter
Yes, it seems to be 4x weekly (Mon Wed Fri Sun) until early January, then according to the online timetable it switches to 3x weekly (Tues Thurs Sat) until the start of the summer season when it goes daily again.

The switching round of operating days seems a bit odd if EI is trying to develop the route for any kind of business traffic - maybe they see it as essentially a leisure route?

Does anyone know whether there is any plan to do anything else with the aircraft on the "off" days (e.g. replace an A330 with it to JFK/BOS) or is it just parked up?

Edited to add:
I've just seen that EI109, the later of the two DUB-JFK flights, switches from daily to Mon-Wed-Fri-Sun for the same period (Jan-Mar) that Toronto switches to Tues-Thurs-Sat. So I am guessing that EI is taking one A330 out of service for that period (heavy maintenance? wetlease work?) and using the 757 to replace it on DUB-JFK.

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