Cheers Jamie,
Dublin has often mirrored MAN when it comes to Etihad, so, this news is quite shocking.
I just didn't think things had got that bad for EY at Dublin. That said, EY website and all GDS platforms still taking bookings for 2 daily, so, I suppose it's a wait and see.
With EDI getting chopped to 5 weekly too, seems Etihad isn't quite able to keep up with the Joneses down in Dubai.
They had planned to resume B777 (high density) flights (1 daily) this winter if they keep that flight and cut the evening A330 passenger numbers will not suffer a lot during winter besides maybe a slight time over Christmas/NY.
They were planning to provide average of 40,440 seats per month while the B777 will cut that to 24,720 while most winter months just gone were just over 25,000 mark while capacity was around 31,440 (2 A332) as they dropped 777 middle of last winter.
When they had 2 daily B777 (year round) it was average loads of 50%.
Airline route has amended tweet:
From 1 December 12 of 14 weekly bookable
From 1 January 7 of 14 weekly bookable