Originally Posted by
madgav
Not sure where you live but BFS already has a direct link to the US
And there are plenty of connection options for westbound too.... but yes, that said a significant number of NI travellers are still using Dublin going to the US, presumably largely for cost reasons?
Yes I agree it makes little sense going east, where there are a lot of convenient connecting options that will bring NI pax back to their local airport (one or other of them)
I know there is a flight from Belfast, I have used it before. But most of the time I have to use Dublin because it is cheaper, other times I want to go somewhere and just fly directly there, for example, say Atlanta it is easier to just drive to Dublin and go through preclearance and fly straight there.
If Belfast introduced one or two more routes to places other than New York there would be less reason to go via Dublin.
If I was just flying to New York I would never go via Dublin.