Owen, u must have be a ex dublin traveller all the time, anyone knows ex dub business class is nothing like the LHR and LGW business class

And how much does your 320 miles in the car cost plus your hotels?

Depends what airline you're talking about. EI's J is far superior to BA's for example, and DUB has more flights to the states than LGW.

But the lounges in DUB are indeed dire compared to LHR.

American Airlines offers a new Business Class seat on the 787-8 and Aer Lingus has flat beds among others.

£20 in Bus and £70 for hotel.

If I was a businessman and going business class, why would I get a bus or drive for 2 hours, stay in a hotel? Far more attractive IMO is get a taxi to my local airport 15 mins away and have a drink then be nurtured by the airline straight through connections to my destination?

Ei flat bed and ek flat bed are a world away owen

“Nurtured” by an airline? You have to pay extra for that?

I always get the Aircoach bus from Belfast to Dublin airport.
It`s an hourly 24 hour bus service direct to Dublin airport and gets me there in under 2 hours so I never need a hotel:)

Completely agree, it only comes into play if the airport a couple of hours drive away has a direct flight OR you're paying your own money and price / product comes into play.

Btw Refuellerman, J class on the EK 777s is appalling.

So sorry i ment a380

That is indeed sublime.

Anyway any hints of any of the major alliances heading to BFS? Am I right in saying Star with Brussels and OW with BA are the only representatives in NI down the road in city? Surely LH are there to be chased? It's a shame the airport had such a nasty falling out with EI, with IAG going for Norwegian's gullet in BCN, DUB and LGW, might have been a sneaky chance of getting an extra 321LR from the group based.

Brussels Airlines scrapped BRU-BHD earlier this year. KLM (Skyteam) and BA (Oneworld) are the only alliance links.

Both BHD and BFS have been trying to get Lufthansa/Eurowings for years - however the inability of SN to sustain their Belfast operations doesn't bode well for another Lufthansa Group airline coming to Belfast anytime soon.

I also can't see IAG entering the long haul market from Belfast for a number of reasons. The runway at BHD is too short for transatlantic operations, and they wouldn't split operations between BHD and BFS. IAG will enhance their offering from DUB, LGW, BCN in order to compete against Norwegian, but they won't start operations from regional airports.

I dont think a non budget airline will be over to bfs for a while, delta were almost in before continental/united but as for the big european 3 af/klm iag or Lufthansa who knows?

Found a United bag tag from last summer on an old suitcase :(

What did it say Owen? EWR-DUB??

You use an 'old suitcase', that's not becoming of someone of your stature surely!

Well I guess it doesn't go amiss in a Travelodge or on a bus :-)

Bus
Travelodge
Overnight travel

Yet....flies business class?

More like bull:mad: class!

And all this before your 21st birthday!

I seen online that Premier Inn are going to build a new 81 bed hotel near the Belfast International Airport. Not sure where it is going.

Moorfield Contracts who are building the new serivce station are meant to be the ones building the hotel.

That's brilliant news BFS BHD, type of work Moorfields do.