DUBLIN - 2

[Sober Lark]

LH983 DUB - FRA 05:50 Thurs 24 Nov. Do I need a plan B? Thanks a million SL

[alserire]

Any reason you would Sober Lark? It's 5.30 departure according to LH website

[Sober Lark]

LH strike Wed for 24 hrs. Aircraft out of position??

[alserire]

Well if the strike is midnight to midnight, the Tuesday evening inbound flight (arrives about 22.30) will likely operate the Thursday morning one I would imagine as it'll be going nowhere on Wednesday (does it cost airlines to leave an aircraft sitting there for 24 hours while on strike?). So you should be ok as long as they don't cancel the Tuesday flight..

[Sober Lark]

LH say inbound flights not affected on Wed but outbound from Germany on Wed is?

[alserire]

In that case the Tuesday night plane is operating on Wednesday morning and if the outbound from Germany is affected on Wednesday evening then you're in trouble.

Their website is showing all flights as scheduled to operate on both Wednesday and Thursday at the moment. Poor show.

[Jamie2k9]

There will be an aircraft in DUB for Thursdays 05.30.

(does it cost airlines to leave an aircraft sitting there for 24 hours while on strike?)

Yes, once the standard free hours are finished.

[Sober Lark]

Super replies thanks. Rebooked LH later date just in case and bought EI o/w yesterday for certainty. Advice here saved me €60 so much appreciated.

[EI321]

Qatar route confirmed.

Qatar Airways confirms Dublin-Doha flights

[ia350]

What aircraft are we looking at ? 787 ? Would love it to be the 350.

[EI321]

They are waiting for A350's to be delivered so that a 787 can be freed up to operate the DUB route

[PPRuNeUser0176]

Must of been a spike in bookings since you know Aer Lingus announced it

Welcome to Ryanair!

“Following strong bookings on our popular Dublin to Porto service, we’ve increased our flights to a five-times weekly service starting in March. Porto is popular with both leisure and business travellers and we look forward to carrying even more customers between Dublin and Porto this year.

2 to 5 weekly....

[Dannyboy39]

Was there a bird strike on Monday morning? Flying into DUB around 0730L we were held for around 15 minutes whilst a runway inspection was ongoing to look for debris?

[PPRuNeUser0176]

Going to assume traffic levels, possible dicing delays, fog and taxiway E3 been closed. No mentions of a bird strike anywhere.

Some holding during afternoon as well.

[PPRuNeUser0176]

2017

TE report QR hold slots from March while HU also have slots to extend their MAN service. Of course slots are not always used.

[Jamie2k9]

AA have scheduled B788 on Chicago from 5 July to 5 October (US dep). Not a good thing...

Still early days I wouldn't be surprised if further changes were made by Feb.

[ia350]

Why isn't that a good thing ?

[AerRyan]

Originally Posted by ia350

Why isn't that a good thing ?

Not sure what they use ATM, but lower capacity seems like a blatantly obivous one, if applicable.

[PPRuNeUser0176]

Suspect if you browse Manchester forum it dons't exactly give you confidence on AA and B787 to Europe.

Slightly lower Y but almost 50% extra J seats which are needed and bring in the big bucks.

[Una Due Tfc]

Originally Posted by AerRyan

Not sure what they use ATM, but lower capacity seems like a blatantly obivous one, if applicable.

They use an A332 atm, the CLT and ORD aircraft swap on the ground in DUB ie CLT arrival departs to ORD and vice versa.