Would make perfevt sense. did sas npt have some link witrh spanair

Yes but they had written down the value of their stake to zero and wanted nothing more to do with it for last number of years.

Thrice Daily Southend to Dublin by Aer Lingus Regional
 

I think sen could be a gold mine of a route. i wouldnt be surprised to see some rotations upgraded to 320's. I would think that ei may not have this route all to themselves for very long.

stab3.5up, for the long term, I agree. But not in the short term.

3x ATR 42 to establish the route, which will no doubt be worth upgrading to 3x ATR 72 some 3-6 months later. Then, in maybe 12 months, I can see the A319 as it filters in to EI's fleet being worthwhile on the route.

I'm not sure I can see Southend being that much of a goldmine in itself. Its catchment isn't any greater than a number of other destinations that don't exactly have great service from Dublin.

What they do have though is the only flight from Southend that will connect you onto long-haul. And with no transatlantic from Stansted, with Heathrow and Gatwick a decent distance away, that could mean the yields are very good on Southend-originating pax. However, I don't see that meaning exceptionally large numbers that would justify transfering the route to an A319/320.

There is the Stn - Ams / Dub etc option for transatlantic plus others so not convinced there will ever be that level of demand from Southend.

Anything that avoids ryanair and is as a cheap alternative to london the hell hole that is lhr gets my vote!

Will keep the plane spotters happy

:confused: it's a leasing company, just like the dozens of others that are based in the IFSC and around Dublin (and Shannon). It's a small bit of good news for the economy, but has nothing at all to do with movements at Dublin Airport.

I stand corrected but i think the leasing companies thst put aircraft on to ei register bring them into dub now and then esp if they getting refregistered. is that not why all the spainairs are in dub

Any word on QI coming back for the BLL route this summer? Can't see it mentioned on their website...

Strategic Airlines planned flights to LCA have being cancelled, not know if another carrier will take over the flights.

They won't be back.

Tom basing second 737 in dub for summer so msybe thats doing the strstegic flights

The second Thomson aircraft will be replacing Hoilday Czech Airlines flights and some Europe Airpost flights.

Sunway will now just be using Thomson's regular flight on Sundays.

Thats v interesting. i thought sunway used ei for holidays

They do for most of there hoildays.

Emirates
 

A quick question, folks.

Could someone tell me which Handling Agent Emirates use in DUB?

Servisair I think

Thanks, EI-EIDW...

They deffo use servisair for the ramp ops, origionally they planned to handle themselves apart from ramp, I know this for a fact as I applied for the job but apparently they got an offer they couldnt refuse for servisair to handle all aspects. AS far as i know anyway.

Im not sure thats entirely the case as ek would need to apply for a ground handling licence

I know they were definately going to handle check in aspects themselves as I was invited to interview for pax agent supervisor then they dropped the positions citing they had decided to go with a handling agent.

summer 2012
 

Can i just ask as im sure someone will know. Are we are were we are niw with the summer plans or is there any outstanding routes etc to be announcef ir is what is common knowledge out there more are less the final runningorder for the summer??

'Are we are were we are niw' whats that in English please ?

With the Summer schedule for most operators starting April/May I can't see anyone decided any new routes in the next few days/weeks.


I think he mean to type "where are we now" in regards to the summer schedule.

I guessed as much that what is in place now is more or less what we will see this summer

Air France have being operating flights with there A319/320/321 over the last few days. Any reason or is it just for the weekend that was in it.

God, it'd be so nice to see the back of those awful Avros...

I wud guess its no more than the weekend that it was. i dont think there was any reason to call scully and mulder lol........i hope!!

Are they problems at DUB tonight. Flightrader show many aircraft holding around the airprot.

As of today there are 25 aircraft stored at DUB from a number of airlines who have ceased operation.

Daa must be making some money on parking!! but still in many ways a very sad sight.

Iberia Express will be operate MAD from 1 June.

MAD will now be 9 weekly in July (8 weekly planned) and 8 weekly in August (7 weekly planned)

Just under 1.2 million passengers for Feb down 2%.

Europe down 8% - 530,000
UK up 2% - 520,000
North America up 8% - 75,000
Middle East/North Africa up 86% - 33,000
Domestic - down 52% - 5,000

Latest News > Almost 1.2m Passengers In February At Dublin Airport

How are Emirates dealing with all their denied boarding passengers ex DUB these days? Upgrade, free flights, compensation? Seems like quite a headache for them could even be as bad as a migraine.

That would be commerically sensitive information i think. why oversell so much wud be my question

By now EK should know not to over sell there DUB flights, flights are always full and EK know this but they continue to sell extra seats knowing that passengers will not be flying. Everyday you are almost gaunted to see passengers being refused to fly with EK. I can't see many of them going back to EK until its sorted out EY will benefit.

On another note why was 10/28 closed this evening?