Owenc

Norwegians entire narrow body fleet is all economy with either 186 or 189 seats, the MAX aircraft are all 189 seats, a combination of slim line seats and the new narrower toilet cubicle means the leg room is the same in either config give or take a knats whisker.

the use of secondary airports in the USA keeps costs and fares down but means there is probably not much premium traffic to be had and any such seats would attract punitive APD out of EDI

The personal feed back that I have had from passengers post flight is positive, touch down to gate time is never more than 5 minutes at PVD or SWF and about 10 minutes from push to take off on the MAX and 7 minutes on the NG

With 180 minutes ETOPS fuel tech stops don’t happen, having said that 189 and normal jet stream winds is not possible and loads are capped, east bound is no problem and I have 191 with ID crew on the jump seats.

word is that the MAX will replace the A321NeoLR next year

I haven’t questioned the Max, it can easily fly a 3000 mile route. The question is whether or not this route is sustainable long term.

I know, but surely BFS-YYZ would be more profitable than SNN-YYZ. It’s a shame we’ve no proper TATL services

I was picking up someone from Dublin Airport last night and I counted 24 transatlantic arrivals from midnight till 10am on the
arrivals screen. BFS deserves at least 1.

The midnight one is the Norweigan one that never seems to have a consistent arrival time. Arrived in at 3am the other day.

Most passangers travelling to Dublin from the US in Summer originate from the USA, they want to visit ‘ Ireland ‘
Their perception of Ireland is Dublin, Galway and Kerry in general.
They want a safe, friendly , English speaking country to begin their gentle transition to European Travel using 1 currency.
if you want their business you have to give it to them.
We tend to view transatlantic flights from what we want out of it and you won’t fill an aircraft consistently from Belfast
unless you make it attractive to Americans and Canadians,
it will take more than Titanic and Game of Thrones tours.
on the positive side, the more flights that land anywhere in Ireland, the more chance of visitors including Northern Ireland
in their travel plans and seeing how wonderful it is.

Agreed, there can be up to ten a day in shannon too. Perhaps once we’re out of the EU, Stormont will give United another incentive package?