According to The Irish Times, the new US CBP facility in T2 will have an interesting feature;

T2 arrives with a lot of baggage - The Irish Times - Fri, Jul 23, 2010

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I'm presuming that the airline planning to operate the cargo route is Etihad, which has recently taken delivery of its first A332F? Cargo on these flights is apparently v. good; it was a big moneyspinner for EI when it had the DXB route.

Good to see SK expanding in DUB; presumably the new flights will be operated by CRJ-900s?

It is be McDonnell Douglas MD-82, Boeing 737-600 or Boeing 737-800.

All these a/c are used on all SAS DUB routes.

All flights to Copenhagen are done by a MD-82.

If the increase happons I hope Ryanair won't open a base in Copenhagen as three airlines operating DUB - Copenhagen wont work. The other being Norwegian Air Shuttle

I think DUB will get this flight.

I cant speak for BRU, but MAN already has a flight to CPH at 10:15, and CPH is twice daily. DUB is once daily with an 18:00 dep to CPH.
Unless they jiggle the 10:15 dep at MAN to a bit later, and make MAN 3 daily, it wouldnt work otherwise.
Those are the only 3 airports in the running, so like I say, my bets are on DUB.

As for EY cargo, how restricted would their B773 be? I know they have already used it at DUB, but Im not sure if any restrictions were in place. Could their B773 not be used on the route to suppliment cargo also, as its the main reason MAN was upped to the B773 and not receive the frequency increase like DUB.

SAS have double daily flights 6 times a week to Copenhagen

MON - Fri & Sun - 2 daily (mid morning and evening)
SAT - 1 daily (mid morning)

Norwegian Air shuffle have 3 weekly also

Do they allow dancing on the plane?

(Apologies Jamie2k9 - I'll get my coat!)

Glad to see SAS increase its presence in Ireland. I last flew them in 2003 - they were a quality airline than. I imagine things have changed a bit since than. Copenhagen and Stockholm are good transit points esp on flights to asia and allow for quick and easy transition to the next boarding gates due to the relatively small size of the airports.Whats deeply disappointing though is that their website is a total joke. You cant book flights from Ireland to any of their transit points - an error message just pops up asking you to give them a call ! They really are a good ten years behind the rest. I believe Lufthansa is very poor in that respect too. Really makes you wonder how they can stay in business. They really need to get their act together.

Anybody no how T2 is coming along i mean is all structural work completed now? and just fitting/Testing out continuing?

Most of the work is done. Construction started (20 July) on the brifge between T1 & T2.

Trails runs began in July and will run in August, September and October. (details on DAA website)

Aer Arann is to axe it's Dublin and Belfast flights from Cork from the end of August - Aer Arann to cut Cork-Dublin and Cork-Belfast services | BreakingNews.ie

Hard to imagine that only a few years ago, Aer Arann were going at least 6x daily on the ORK-DUB route.

On the Dublin run at least it's impossible for them to compete with Ryanair's fares.

dont suppose anyone remembers the 7 reason RE offer, ''7 daily flights Cork to Dublin, ''30 mins check-in'' etc...

So silly of them as we all know that have of the mainline RE a/c are parked up at DUB all day only to return to the PSO routes.

Does that mean they have to give back a portion of the PSO money? Also leases the door open for Manx2.com or FlyMaybe to do the ORK-BHD run maybe?

No there's no PSO on for Cork route.

No i never said that i mean that like from August RE planes will serve PSO routes (exception IOM)

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So Aer Arann have finally thrown in the towel on Cork Dublin. Reducing Cork Dublin to just one flight per day earlier this year was a joke. A business route requires a frequency that allows for a day return at the very least.

I think you will now see Ryanair reduce and then eventually cancel their service DUB-ORK too - they were ony running it at such low fares to get Aer Arann off the service - proberbly selling the seats below cost (i.e. 0 Fare). Does running a 738 between DUB and ORK really make sense?

Depends if MOL has anywhere else to fly the aircraft in the first place. Also to a certain degree it is better to keep it flying generating some level of revenue than parking it. Will depend on what sort of yields he can stand versus the finance costs on it just sitting around.

I guess not really wanting to be anti-avaition, but im guessing being realistic DUB-ORK was more political than economic as a route. With the road and rail improvements it was eventually going to go, i wonder how long the other internal routes will now last?

They won't last kissing time if the PSO's run out.