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BA's withdrawal of the Cork - London routes (specifically LHR) was in part down to their battle at the time with VIRGIN on the transatlantic routes, as part of their 'Dirty Tricks' campaign. To free up more slots in LHR, they simply pulled their ROI services thus ensuring they could get more aircraft in and out of Heathrow to compete with VIRGIN. Subsequent BA ROI services were provided by City Flyer out of LGW and LCY.
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I'll bow to your superior knowledge on the DUB market but quite frankly to pull all ROI routes to free up a few German slots is an excuse that came directly out of the BA PR office. It was no coincidence that this period marked an escalation in the battle with Virgin not forgetting that AA were also involved in the subterfuge having only just arrived in LHR the year before. It was this 'win at all costs' policy that landed BA in court eventually.
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I'll bow to your superior knowledge on the DUB market but quite frankly to pull all ROI routes to free up a few German slots is an excuse that came directly out of the BA PR office. It was no coincidence that this period marked an escalation in the battle with Virgin not forgetting that AA were also involved in the subterfuge having only just arrived in LHR the year before. It was this 'win at all costs' policy that landed BA in court eventually.
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Fruitnfibre; I dont know about superior knowledge!! But thanks for the compliment. I dont think that BA axed Ireland in order to do extra German flights, but rather they clearly said that they were losing alot of money on Ireland routes. My memory of them in ROI was from 1988 (my first airline timetable) until 1991, they did some time on the following routes
Dublin Manchester daily by B11
Dublin Birmingham daily by B11
Dublin Heathrow 6 daily (73S, B11, 757) (in last season they did 0615 take off which in my experice the earliest departure on any London service)
Shannon Heathrow daily
Cork Heathrow daily both by B11 or 73S.
I remember that the flight number are now used I think on LHR Copenhagen! Was a sad day on that March evening. The BA crew handed in there badges/passes at the BA desk and that was the end when the 73S left for LHR around 9!! (Sad that I actually remember that!) . I know they were then represented for the following year in the form of manx airlines franchise on various routes, Loganair on some routes, and then Cityflyer Express which eventually became a 4 daily 737 on LGW and the very short lived flop DUB LCY!
You are right about Virgin the whole dirty tricks stuff was at it height at that time and in the summer of 1991 Virgin were gaining lots of new slots at LHR and started many new TA routes (trying to remember was 1991 the 1st year of VS at LHR, I think that Dirty tricks campaign was mainly centred around LGW? Maybe someone can correct me on that)
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Dublin Manchester daily by B11
Dublin Birmingham daily by B11
Dublin Heathrow 6 daily (73S, B11, 757) (in last season they did 0615 take off which in my experice the earliest departure on any London service)
Shannon Heathrow daily
Cork Heathrow daily both by B11 or 73S.
I remember that the flight number are now used I think on LHR Copenhagen! Was a sad day on that March evening. The BA crew handed in there badges/passes at the BA desk and that was the end when the 73S left for LHR around 9!! (Sad that I actually remember that!) . I know they were then represented for the following year in the form of manx airlines franchise on various routes, Loganair on some routes, and then Cityflyer Express which eventually became a 4 daily 737 on LGW and the very short lived flop DUB LCY!
You are right about Virgin the whole dirty tricks stuff was at it height at that time and in the summer of 1991 Virgin were gaining lots of new slots at LHR and started many new TA routes (trying to remember was 1991 the 1st year of VS at LHR, I think that Dirty tricks campaign was mainly centred around LGW? Maybe someone can correct me on that)
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They are announcing SOMETHING aren't they?
Summer 2010 sees the Cork based aircraft doing the same number of flights but flights carried out by Dublin based and Stansted based aircraft have been reduced.
20 fewer rotations is as much as 7000 fewer passengers per week.
Maybe the announcement is going to be this reduction, just like the announced reduction for Dublin for Summer 2010
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Passenger Numbers
It's been reported that Shannon handled 2.72 Million passengers in 2009 meaning that Cork with 2.75 Million has pipped it to be the Republic's second biggest airport for the second year in a row (Cork handled 3.25 million in 2008 while Shannon handled 3,092,000). It remains to be seen what Belfast City's passenger numbers are like, and whether Cork remains the third busiest airport on the island after Dublin and Belfast International.
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Passenger Numbers 2009
It remains to be seen what Belfast City's passenger numbers are like, and whether Cork remains the third busiest airport on the island after Dublin and Belfast International.
Belfast City: 2.62 Million
Meaning that yes, Cork, with it's tragicly disastrous 2.75 Million remains the third busiest airport on the island of Ireland...
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Aer Lingus Aer Arann linkup
Great news for Cork. Looking at what the announcement means for Cork:
New Routes:
New Routes:
- Glasgow (daily)
- Edinburgh (increased to 11 weekly including the introduction of business friendly twice daily flights on Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays)
- Bristol (increased to daily)
- Cardiff (increased to daily)
- Jersey (increased to 2 weekly)
- La Rochelle (increases to 2 weekly peak season)
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No news on Southhampton? Guess the deal may be that Southampton bound pax can use the new EI LGW-ORK service.
It will be a regret of mine never to have flown the ORK-SOU route.
It will be a regret of mine never to have flown the ORK-SOU route.
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No news on Southhampton? Guess the deal may be that Southampton bound pax can use the new EI LGW-ORK service