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With DUB now back over 20 million per annum, how long will it be till we see an extension to the runway - what is the threshold that must be surpassed?

Does anyone know roughly how many additional seats will be on sale with the recent announcements?

Must be at least 23.5 million per year until the new runway is back on the cards and even at that the DAA have another proposal first.....

Ryanair are adding more than 700,000 from Dublin next year so with all the other airlines I would assume the final figure will be over the one million mark next year.

How many of the 20 million needed a longer runway?

Very little really needs the longer runway - its the fact that 10/28 is going to fall apart soon. A parallel runway is needed to allow it to be completely rebuilt and then to not hammer the single runway to death afterwards.

Overlooking the fact that St John's is supposed to be the cloudiest, foggiest and windiest of Canadian cities, I'd imagine Ryanair will observe Westjet's 16 week run in a 737-700 this summer with special interest.

United are increasing DUB-EWR to 2 daily between 06 June & 19 August.

The flight details for the second daily flight are as follows:

UA131 DEP DUB 12:30 ARR EWR 15:00
UA130 DEP EWR 22:25 ARR DUB 10:20

The flights will be operated by a B752.

United to Introduce Second Daily Dublin ? New York Nonstop Service for Summer 2014 - ITTN | Irish Travel Trade News Magazine

Its listed as a B737-700 in GDS. Rather strange!

That is strange.

The second daily flight is now bookable on the UA website and shows both daily flights will be operated by the 752.

Yes its on UA site as B757 which is why I was taken aback at B737-700 listed in GDS.

Good news for DUB anyway.

Amadeus now showing 757

T1 Security queues AT DUB
 

After a short period of EXCELLENCE it was disappointing to see the long queues back at DUB T1 security last week. Did it not even occur to the DAA that huge crowds would be returning home after the holidays? It was maddening to see that one third of the lanes were CLOSED during this very busy period.

Wasn't COA127 a second daily seasonal EWR flight before the merger and they started sending it to IAD instead? Thought it was only a matter of time before they got a second EWR flight going again. Let's hope they don't have the same issue with gates if they arrive early as the other flight.....

It was and there shouldn't be issues with gates at that time. It doesn't happen very often and airports can't be expected to plan around the wind direction for a handful of flights. If it was such an issue for UA they could of delayed the departure from the US but we all know why they couldn't do that, it's the same at DUB.

It seems Dublin has dropped out of Etihads top 10 routes list, despite having approximately the same capacity as Manchester (number 6 on the list) had for a lot of 2013 in the form of the B77W.

Routes News - Etihad reveals top 10 busiest routes

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Cargo was the main driver for the 777 upgrade, 2013 numbers are only up slightly so the B777 had next to no effect. Pax are up by just over 4000. EY plan 787 service which shows they never had plans for pax to operate a 777. The October upgrade to all 777 for a period was for cargo to.

BTW Man had a lot more capacity before the B777 started and even with the 777 ops MAN still have slightly more capacity.

On another note saw the Government meet with Qatar CEO about starting a direct service, IMO it will only be a matter of time before it happened with or without that meeting.

There is a limiting factor an Ireland to Australia service.............

As Irish economy improves and those who have emigrated have already done so then market reaches its own plateau of travellers.

On friends from both Ireland and UK who have emigrated to Antipodes in the first couple of years there are flights back home every year. But as people start to settle in their new lives after 2-3 years then this drops back to every 2-3 years. Even family visiting them tends to be about 1 visit in 3 years.

Biggest obstacle to QTR is that the ME carriers are only allowed use 1 gate in T2, something to do with the US preclearance according to a colleague in DUB, hence why the Emirates often has to sit waiting for the Etihad to depart if that is delayed in the morning. QTR could use T1 i suppose.....

Quote: Biggest obstacle to QTR is that the ME carriers are only allowed use 1 gate in T2, something to do with the US preclearance according to a colleague in DUB, hence why the Emirates often has to sit waiting for the Etihad to depart if that is delayed in the morning. QTR could use T1 i suppose.....


Not quiet the case when I'm at DUB, EY depart 3h before EK arrive after. I think they use one gate as its best one to use. QTR would have no problems as they could operate at anytime of the day. Evening departure or afternoon departure. They have a 14.45 departure form MAN and they could easily have that time at DUB with no problems and would not be gate restricted.


racedo - people I know from UK who went to AU they never came home for a long time after they left as they couldn't afford it but come back more often now.

Best mate from Dublin has cousins there who average a trip every 3-4 years.

Some friends see every 2 years but seems general ave is ever 2-3.

I was up in DUB for a meeting a while back. Went up to the tower to say Hi, Etihad 332 was waiting 45 mins for Emirates 77W to clear the gate. Other gates were free, ground controller said he couldn't give them another gate because the Americans didn't allow it

That was early afternoon IIRC