Dublin-3

[waterford87]

Expect multiple announcements regarding new routes and expanded frequencies for Dublin to Canada next week.

[EI-A330-300]

August Traffic

Almost 3.1 million up 7%.

Europe 1.6 million up 7%
UK 922,000 flat (or down 0.3% to be exact)
Transatlantic 409,000 up 21%
Middle East and Africa 95,000 up 15%
Domestic 10,000 down 1%

Year to date just over 20 million up 6%

https://www.dublinairport.com/latest...-far-this-year

In other news Cobalt Aero have announced this week LCA will operate year round twice weekly.

[waterford87]

Big announcements to come next week from for Dublin and Shannon multiple new routes and frequency increases.

[PPRuNeUser0176]

All sounds rather exciting, any idea which day?

[EI-BUD]

Anything to do with the new low cost airline that I recall Westjet were launching? Or is Rouge going to displace the lost capacity that is transferring to Air Canada mainline? Air Transat may be one to watch...they have been in the market a long time...

[AerRyan]

Will be Rouge announcing tomorrow if Shannon's anything to go by.

[EI-A330-300]

Whoever it is, announcements to take place tomorrow.

[EI-A330-300]

No AC news yet but United extrnd ORD season to run from April to October.

[owenc]

Yeah no good, they need to upgrade the flight to a 767-300. A 757-200 is too small for a flight of that length.

[ia350]

Stop complaining at least we have the service 😉

[owenc]

It's fine, i'll use the American Boeing 788.

[Jamie2k9]

New x4 weekly 737 MAX 8 route to YUL with AC while YVR increases from 3 to 5 weekly.

https://aircanada.mediaroom.com/2017...o-and-Montreal

[owenc]

So this will have AVOD since is is Air Canada Mainline?

[Una Due Tfc]

So is that a reduction on YYZ? 11x weekly Rouge B763 to daily mainline A333?

[PPRuNeUser0176]

Part of YYZ capacity was to enable YVR operate. BAck to daily and TBH I think if they were to increase it they would need B787 or B767s free to do it. Overall 16 weekly flights (+2) and around 400 seats (subject to MAX final config).

[PPRuNeUser0176]

Beijing is awaiting final Chinease Government approval according to chief executive of Avolon which Hainan Group purchased.

[PPRuNeUser0176]

Ryanair will cancel 22 flights per week everyweek over the winter schedule...

[1sky]

Do we know which flights those are?

[AerRyan]

Ryanair haven't announced any cancellations from Dublin, I'd be interested to know what they are.

[Cian]

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irel...lled-1.3236895

Some flights on BHX, BVA, "Barcelona" (probably BCN, but could be the others) OTP, MAD, MOD and KRK.

Warsaw and Modlin were listed as two seperate places, hence we can't be sure about Barcelona=BCN.

No routes cancelled in full. BHX is an interesting one as they hugely ramped up frequencies there in a push-back against EI and Stobart and may be suffering overcapacity.