Done. Ridiculous in this day and age that a company cannot get on top of absenteeism. A fair few angry heads there on Saturday. And it wasn't just my flight. A lot of people standing around waiting for bags that took an age to arrive.

^^^Good. Sounds like a shambles, that day.

Do EI currenlty nightstop any aircraft in Europe?

I had a quick scan of the timetables and the earliest arrivals from BCN/MAD/FCO etc are all 12:00+, which rules out connections onto morning transatlantic departures. Surely as the hub continues to grow they would benefit from some earlier arrivals? It would help reduce the glut of early-morning departures from Dublin aswell.

None outside of the UK.

Why would anyone from these cities want/need to use DUB as a hub rather than flying direct? I haven't scoured the websites, but I would have thought that being larger cities, these places would have at least as wide a range of TA destinations as DUB.

Hartford would be the only route that Dublin posses that none of the major hubs do.

It has been looked at however its difficult to do it and for example take away existing morning services out of DUB could really damage them with point to point and considering currently 70% of T/A services arrive in DUB before 05.45 to meet the morning wave of departures.

LHR, FCO, AMS which are some of the best connected cities to the US are the busiest transit points s make of that what you will.

Good point, hadn't thought about the inbounds.....

7 A321LR's finally confirmed with 3 arriving in 2019 and 4 in 2020.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/air-le...140000293.html

186 seats so one assumes 12J, 174Y.

But none for any other IAG group airlines?

EI had confirmed they were getting them months ago (more less) however IAG said they are looking at them for other carriers now. Could be some before they finish that process.

80+ more opportunities

Just looking at destinations were these aircrafts could go , I'd say monteral and detriot. Where else that's in range ?

And all EI points in Europe currently served by 320/321/330...!
Complete with business cabin

EI-BUD

I guess they will replace the 757s pretty much 1-1 so that gives us a few route clues:

SNN-New York
SNN-Boston
DUB-Hartford
DUB-Toronto
DUB-New York (make the day return year round?)

That leaves 2 aircraft to launch new routes. Philadephia would seem a good bet to feed the American hub, then maybe Montreal. Detroit/Columbus/Baltimore could also be options.

If anything I think they could use more aircraft. Commonality with the short-haul fleet gives great flexibility if the economy takes a downturn so it's very low risk v getting new widebodies.

BWI, YQB....It's small and fuel efficient enought to open up more marginal routes like BDL.

It could also bring back the early Kennedy flight, or do the same with BOS or ORD.

All indications are that it will have serious efficiency and cargo capacity advantages over the MAX.

-manutd1999
According to the press release, they are replacing 4 757s with 7 321LR, so there should be 3 extra for new routes.

YYZ goes to 330 this year, so based on current ops, 3 321Neo's would be committed. Lots of opportunities.

It's rather interesting that they have still not confirmed what's happening with the A350s, both IB and EI due to start deliveries next year.

Wonder if we might see them with EI after all, not sure IAG have more A333 options left with Airbus for 2018 delivery.