Here is info on management and board of the DAA.

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Glad to see there has being some sort of improvement with security waiting times.

Aer Lingus Winter 2013/4 Schedule
 

Increases over winter 2012/3
Aberdeen 10 weekly up 3
Alicante 3 weekly up 1
Boston 11 weekly up 4 *
Budapest 5 weekly up 1
Cardiff 17 weekly up 4
Faro 4 weekly up 1
Geneva daily **
Hamburg daily up 2
Lanzarote daily up 2
Lisbon daily up 2
Malaga 8 weekly up 1
Munich 12 weekly up 1
Nice 5 weekly up 1
Paris 4 daily up 7
Zurich 9 weekly up 2

* operates 10 weekly 27 Nov-11 Dec
** operates 9 weekly from 14 December up 1

Reductions over winter 2012/13
Bristol 6 weekly down 10
Isle of Man 10 weekly down 2
Warsaw 3 weekly down 3-4
Southend 6 weekly down 15

Cancelled for winter
Bucharest (2) Cancelled on 30 April
Bournemouth (3-4)
Stuttgart (3)
Verona (3)

Changes possible but some of Bristol reduction transferred to Cardiff while SEN see's a major drop in capacity, not a surprise IMO. BRS route schedules seen just aimed at T/A connections while the same for SEN. ABZ has T/A restored for winter an improved times with an 07.30 departure from Dublin 3 days a week.

Air France dropping a daily CDG flight in March has benefited EI by added capacity during the summer and even more for winter. Alicante, Zurich, Hamburg will have T/A connections for winter. Only route that loses them is Stockholm.

BHX and MAN only showing EI flights for winter same as last year, EIR are showing again from late March 2014. Could just be to early for them to decide since either have not started yet.

New York showing no reduction in the New Year even though last years full reduction only lasted a few week and started to build back up from mid Feb. Next week's rumoured announcement from EI should confirmed T/A schedules for 2014.

Are all these currently on sale, CWL isn't showing any flights for this Winter yet..

Most is except some of the EIR flights are loaded but not showing, but the schedules are showing in the timetable.

I confess I'm really surprised at that apparent cut on DUB-BRS in particular which is completely throwing away the local market to Ryanair. Is there any possibility that there's another aircraft or two worth of EIR capacity still to be loaded into the schedules?

Everytime I have flower to BRS with EIR the morning flight is full of US passengers and the evening flight has very few on it. I estimate that at least 70% of passengers on the route are connecting.

The last LGW-DUB on Saturday evenings seems to have been dropped again. :sad: Dropped 26th October, restored on 30th March. I've made extensive use of this to save on overnights (or travelling on FR).

It's a shame Southend is dropping to 6 weekly, that's quite a pathetic schedule after all the talk of a fourth rotation which seems even more unlikely when you realise there are only 2 flights on some days during the summer. I wonder how happy Aer Lingus are with that, could Aer Arann only be staying on the route because of Stobart?

If Aer Arann can't make SEN-DUB work with the Aer Lingus brand then there is little chance of Stobarts plans for a SEN base succeeding, might want to think about leaving Aer Arann to flourish with Aer Lingus Regional instead of dreaming of ATRs buzzing around Southend and Europe.

W14 schedules
 

Not finalised for EI or EIR as yet fleet issues deliveries
Etc etc:=

Dropping to 6 weekly does seem a big reduction to be the final schedule, a 2 daily operation with daily in mid week seems reasonable to me.

I still don't see Stobarts plan of an Aer Arann SEN base working out but that's another debate.

As Hangar 6 points out the schedules are not finalised and Bristol, Southend will not be reduced to six weekly - clerical error with morning flights just being loaded.

Also to point out route cancellations are not confirmed, Jamie2k9 this is pure speculation on your part by reading timetables.

SEN
 

If they go for the two ATRs they have on provisional order then it will happen for sure S14:ok:

I have no doubt a SEN base is going to happen, Stobart pretty much confirmed they intend to replicate the Aer Lingus Regional at SEN but whether or not it will work out is a different story. Maybe it will depend on the franchise they choose to operate.

ATRS SEN
 

Well EI will finance a third of the two aircraft.....so green paint at least but your right next summer is an aviation unknown for any non ME carrier

Aer Lingus announced there full winter schedules yesterday, regional may still have changes.

At least 2 or the 3 will be dropped for winter and Jamie2k9 may well just be going by the timetable but I think he has taken a number of other indicators into consideration. Aer Lingus destroyed DUB-STR route last winter and I am not surprised its being dropped.

Jack you do have a chip on your shoulder when it comes to Jamie2k9....

For the last 3 years now Regional has never been fully finalised until July for its Winter Schedules and until February for its Summer schedules. I was fully referring to Regional in my post. And EI-A330-300 I'm not interested in childish behaviour, and frankly if I've a problem with someone I say it outright and am fully not interested in this childish milark you're trying to put across, I enjoy many of Jamie's contributions however I am just giving my input.

Also what kind of remark is this? They've been around a lot longer than yourself and I'm pretty sure op's know exactly what they are doing.

Just one final comment on BRS thing, the route is now operated by all 42's instead of 72's which shows demand has dropped a lot. With there only being 3 42's in the fleet you can see the situation EI are in, if a 72's is to large for the route and there isn't a 42 available to operate the afternoon the best decision is to cancel the afternoon services instead of running a larger aircraft. The 42's are used a lot more in winter and they even do the odd EDI and GLA in winter.

A route that started with 3 daily 72's dropped to 2 daily 72 has now dropped to 2 daily 42 apart from the odd extra flight on selected days which was 72 at the time and now a 42 as well.

Not sure about that....

Meanwhile, outside the front door ...
 

How does this work? Publicity stunt at Dublin Airport Someone telephones the DAA, asks if it would be OK to drive a relic of WW2, complete with a bunch of nutters carrying items that would definitely not clear security, up to the doors of T2 and the DAA say "yeah, whatever ..." ?

Or is it just the French choosing which rules to follow, à la carte? :E

I did say changes are possible......

That may be the case but I have also considered passenger numbers and notes on promotions.

Loads last winter.
DUB-STR
November 25.5
December 51.5
January 34.7
February 43.3

Was a little better during winter 2011/12/

DUB-VRN
November 30.6
December 35.9
January 36.5
February 50.3

Could see them possibly operating a weekly flight for ski season instead of 3 weekly for the whole winter.

BOH is just about viable at 4 weekly in March, April and most of May and for winter I can't see its being sustainable over the winter even if its reduced.

Loads on the BOH DUB route in winter averaged about 45 pax on an ATR 72 a/c with services 4 a week

Obviously its all down to yield , even with an ATR 42 operating now its still not enough , very frustrating

Anyone know what the problem was with UA944 ORD-FRA that diverted in just before 05.00. Expected departure to FRA is at 06.50 tomorrow.

There was a problem with the weather radar system on the aircraft was firstly going to go to BFS but the main runway at BFS was close for works so DUB was his 2nd airport :)

Dublin Airport Terminal 1 to get major facelift - Independent.ie

Its being long over due.

Whilst renovations are taking place it seems they are contemplating closing T1 and putting everyone into T2 then to alleviate congestion in T2 due to strikes and delays at T1, Ryanair will offer to help out by building their own T3.

Norwegian airline Flynonstop will run a new flight to Kristiansand, Norway from 28th October.

Flights will be 2 weekly on Thu and Sun.

Do you have a link to the story as nothing on there website from what I can see.

It mentions DUB in the box on the right hand side of the the flynonstop website. They are adding ALC as well.

FlyNonstop tilbyr nonstop flyvninger fra Kjevik Barcelona, Berlin, Dubrovnik, London, Nice, Palma, Paris og Parma.

Thanks for that, I was looking at English version.

The airline are starting a variety of destinations this winter. Nice scheme on their aircraft too, so wish them the best of luck.

Another day at T2 and this morning just before 11.00 a fault caused the whole check in system to crash. I missed my flight and I expect many more did. There was at least 10 rows of passengers queuing across the terminal between desks 29 and 52 when I was leaving at 12.00. Many flights were due to depart before 13.00. I was only going to London but wonder what passengers going to places less frequently served are going to get there.

Fly nonstop
 

Stopped already it seams?

As I said before all Aer Lingus Regional flights loaded with notable increases from Dublin to Bristol. London-Southend unchanged at 3x daily.

United have officially confirmed the airline is looking closely at SFO service using there B787. although nothing announced today they said it was being consodered and an ideal route for the 787. Would post a link but using IPhone.

Officals from the airline were in Dublin celebrating 15 years in Ireland and new ORD service from SNN.
So will it be EI or UA?

Here's the link:
http://www.ittn.ie/bulletins/united-...san-francisco/

My bet ould be with EI launching it as they've pretty much got the aircraft ready to go once the the 757's come in January.

Maybe but would the route not be more viable on the 787?

With EI and UA cost operation anything is possible.

I'd say it's viable with both, but keep in mind Aer Lingus have known that they'll likely be launching this route all year long and will have been working on securing contracts from companies to purchase a block number of seats, also Aer Lingus have the Regional feed from the UK that UA wouldn't have which could be a big deciding factor when it comes to it.

May Traffic
 

Almost 1.9 million passengers in May up 9%

Europe 1 million up 10%
UK 608,000 up 8%
T/A 176,000 up 18%
Middle East/Africa 39,000 up 7%
Domestic 5,700 up 5%

Year to date over 7.3 million up 4%

Latest News > Just Under 1.9M Passengers Travelled Through Dublin Airport In May

Wonder if there would be need for Dublin based CC on the Dub Sfo route with United, would be very interested in this as I have family in SF...