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Anyone know what the TK announcement is on Tuesday, hardly just confirming going 2 daily?

Maybe a new route to Ankara ?

An upgrade to an a330 for a few weeks during the summer ?

I was thinking an aircraft upgrade to a wide body. Not sure if they would do a new route when they are a hub type airline.

shortly after GLA BRS and NCL ?

Probably never lol.

Can't see them going to Belfast , especially with them increasing their Dublin route .

I did read about a year or 2 ago that Turkish were interesting in tapping into the Dalaman holiday market after several meetings with the tourism chiefs of the area, linking cities in Northern and Western Europe.


Given Dublin doesn't have a huge charter operation, could they be looking into resurrecting that plan, with Dublin in mind?

2014 traffic reached 21.7 million up 8% (1.5 million).

Europe 11.1 million up 5%
UK 7.8 million up 8%
Transatlantic 2.1 million up 14%
Middle East/Africa 643,000 up 19%
Domestic 72,000 up 7%

Transfer traffic 750,000 up 34%

Latest News > Dublin Airport Passenger Numbers Up 8% To 21.7M

Dublin Airport results
 

Hi All,
what a sparkling set of results by Dublin airport. Great to see the single most important piece of transport infrastructure on the island showing growth.

The stand out for me was the relationship betwee the 'Middle east/ Africa' and the 'Transatlantic' one. A ratio of 2.1M:643K, i.e. 76:23. Incredible what the Middle east/ aftrica portion is achieving. Hence, I see massive potential in the transatlantic business. These should compliment each other strongly.

Suggests that easily Dublin can truly become a gateway for the USA at a much greater scale than current exists. Lets hope the facilities can handle this.

EI-BUD

It also further shows up EI's hopeless efforts at an expansion eastwards some years ago. While they were never going to be as well positioned strategically as the gulf carriers there was definitely an opportunity missed by them in that market when they decided to step away from it and stick rigidly to low cost European and transatlantic only.

DXB was never workable considering only around 30% of EK and EY traffic is poont to point.

There is very little euro carrier presence in DXB.

Excellent figure's maybe it's time to start that runway .

Stellar performance at DUB, and sustainable too.

Kinocker,

I disagree entirely with your assertion that Aer Lingus expansion eastward was hopeless. They tried it as did Gulf air in the peak of booming Ireland.

They didn't have a clear strategic link for seamless travel through Dubai. Besides the airlines of the Emirates have the resources and scale to make it work where other's did not.

Putting a focus on the core and profitable markets ie the U.S. was the right choice and they have made substantial profess to date.

Third busiest year ever for DUB, here's hoping they're back to the boom numbers (over 23 million) within a year or 2

Is the Turkish airlines major announcement tomorrow ?

EI330/300

Some of the Euro Carrier presence in Dubai, BA, Virgin, KLM, Air France, Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian, Turkish.

The point being all of those are hubs located in a good area and have the benefit of feed into DXB as an O&D point. Bet EK have better frequency than most if not all and are the largest capacity provider on the route.

As suspected just confirming double daily officially.

AF operating a B773 charter on 10/15 Feb.

Ireland v France six nations match on the 14th