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Oddly enough I had a feeling both LON routes would be on A319's over summer. Be good if EI did launch something new from BHD, I did read somewhere previously they were intending to open up a new route from BHD roughly one a year, also that they wanted to increase frequency particularly to LHR.
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Apart from reducing the aircraft size on the Gatwick route from 320 to 319, the booking engine now has departure of the 1st flight of the day at 0740 (same as LHR) arriving in LGW at 0905. It would appear that Aer Lingus is handing the morning business traveller business to BA and the Flybe. The latter on LCY would appear to be having an impact on Aer Lingus route to LGW already...
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AerRyan,
You mean that there would be 3 x 319's?
My understanding is that the current 320 will stay to serve sun routes and an additional 319 coming up from Dublin in place of the usual 320 that comes.
I can see that there are quite a few routes ex Dublin that would be better served with 319 than sun routes ex BHD. SNN has one. So that makes 4....
Hence, I doubt 3 x 319's....
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You mean that there would be 3 x 319's?
My understanding is that the current 320 will stay to serve sun routes and an additional 319 coming up from Dublin in place of the usual 320 that comes.
I can see that there are quite a few routes ex Dublin that would be better served with 319 than sun routes ex BHD. SNN has one. So that makes 4....
Hence, I doubt 3 x 319's....
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AerRyan,
You mean that there would be 3 x 319's?
My understanding is that the current 320 will stay to serve sun routes and an additional 319 coming up from Dublin in place of the usual 320 that comes.
I can see that there are quite a few routes ex Dublin that would be better served with 319 than sun routes ex BHD. SNN has one. So that makes 4....
Hence, I doubt 3 x 319's....
EI-BUD
You mean that there would be 3 x 319's?
My understanding is that the current 320 will stay to serve sun routes and an additional 319 coming up from Dublin in place of the usual 320 that comes.
I can see that there are quite a few routes ex Dublin that would be better served with 319 than sun routes ex BHD. SNN has one. So that makes 4....
Hence, I doubt 3 x 319's....
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Yes Mart901, I saw that re the timings. It is all a little ironic, given that Aer Lingus moved to the City Airport to chase a business traveller offering, and now there is no service arriving into the London area before 9am. Hence, no passenger can expect to be in London pre 10a.m. on business.
Flybe early to LCY and BA 0655 can each look forward to accommodating the business traveller. Disappointing.
Comments re Aer Lingus doing W rotations with Dublin aircraft makes little sense to me. Firstly, is the plan to cut back on the crew numbers at BHD? Secondly, there will be a huge amount of ferrying crew between bases and finally, the fact that under union arrangements, staff on Belfast contracts are not permitted to work on flights ex Dublin Airport. How does any of this make for operational sense?
Unless they are planning to add additional routes to Europe over and above the existing services flown by the based 320????
Flybe early to LCY and BA 0655 can each look forward to accommodating the business traveller. Disappointing.
Comments re Aer Lingus doing W rotations with Dublin aircraft makes little sense to me. Firstly, is the plan to cut back on the crew numbers at BHD? Secondly, there will be a huge amount of ferrying crew between bases and finally, the fact that under union arrangements, staff on Belfast contracts are not permitted to work on flights ex Dublin Airport. How does any of this make for operational sense?
Unless they are planning to add additional routes to Europe over and above the existing services flown by the based 320????
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Sorry I didn't look properly through to see its 5 weekly. Earlier would be better but depends on aircraft availability, also plenty of later connections across Europe. I'm grateful its keeping going, hopefully it will build up nicely across the year.
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KLM concentrates its movements at Schiphol in seven banks / waves of 90 minutes each. All except the first and last are a mix of long-haul and European movements.
So long as the Belfast City flight can align to a bank then it should be useful.
So long as the Belfast City flight can align to a bank then it should be useful.
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From the launch of the schedule there were always two flights in April scheduled. Makes some sense to wait until the route starts on a frequent basis to shout about it...