Will that be on all flights, Edinburgh included?

Shenzhen
 

I agree - on the face this appears to be an odd route.

I have just returned from a trip to that very city: it is extremely prosperous with a strong propensity for outbound travel, is growing and developing very quickly and is the Chinese version of 'Silicon Valley'.

With a new fast train link to HK, you can be in Kowloon in around 20 minutes from Shenzhen. It could then have potential but.....you don't need a Chinese visa to land into HK whereas you do for Shenzhen (even if you are then going straight to HK on the train) and onward flight connections from Shenzhen are fairly limited apart from domestic routes, we all know that you can get virtually anywhere from HK!

Shenzhen Airport is well designed and I found a breeze to get through, even Immigration, perhaps I was lucky!

But it is still an oddball route. However, I can highly recommend Shenzhen for a visit though (as part of a trip to China) - great food, cheap 5 star hotels and a fair bit to see and do in the vicinity. Climate is very nice - it was 22 degrees when I was there before Christmas! Whether all this is enough for this to be a sustainable routes, let's see, but does it have potential as an alternative entry point to China??

You can pull figures from June to September from the CSO

https://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Sta...01&PLanguage=0

However, it's not clear to me how they treat the passengers on the flights that stop in EDI.

If they are excluded, the figures look quite good. If they aren't, they are very ugly.

Anyone hear the figures for January?

Quiet a busy Feb with over 2 million up 9%

Europe 1m up 12%
UK 765k up 4%
N American 175k up 15%
Other Int 62k up 2% - quiet a lot of capacity additions/reductions verses 2018.
Domestic 7k down 16%

https://www.dublinairport.com/latest...dublin-airport

Norwegian
B789 - Operating SWF (PVD pax bused) until 30 April. Current schedules from 1 May have 3 instead of 4 aircraft planned with SWF reduced from 14 to 10 weekly, while YHW delayed until 1 May and reduced from 7 to 4 weekly. All bookings are essentially suspended for the summer unless you think €1200-14000 is good value for a return trip until they know whats happening.

Aer Lingus
A321 delays have resulted in approx 50,000 seats removed for S19.

Hearing whispers one of the TATL carriers are mulling over a new service and its not Aer Lingus.

air canada would be my bet

Or maybe a certain other US carrier big at JFK who will make an announcement on April 10th, though I think that will concern a London route more than Dublin...

I presume Air Canada would only look to route to one of their hubs, but they have service to three of them and Calgary would seem a stretch, considering WestJet already serve it and it's not the best location for connections.

WestJet themselves could perhaps see potential in Edmonton or Winnipeg, but as an airline that has 10% of its fleet as 737Maxs, I'd be surprised to see any immediate expansion.

Then of the three bis US carriers, Delta to Detroit, United to Houston or American to Phoenix could all make some kind of sense.

Is Atlanta or SLC served?

DL fly to Atlanta.

Cardiff route/Flybe
 

What are the implications for the Dublin/Cardiff route as a result of Flybe's closing of the base?

It seems while they will close the base, they must fly to Cardiff from other bases. Dublin has an early morning flight, and feeds transatlantic connections. If this comes over to Stobart/Aer Lingus Regional, it is unlikely it would have an early flight owing to the lack of slots...

I can't see them carrying it on as it would require a W pattern, i'd imagine that the airport will either try and get Aer Lingus back with the Regional product or try and get Ryanair to take over the route. When Aer Lingus Regional did operate the route before it was 2 daily in the week at least with the morning arrival at 08.25 and the departure at 08.50 and the night arrival at 20.35 and departure at 21.00 whether Aer Lingus would be interested again? But Dublin did see 108,275 passengers on it in 2018.

That's a very ambiguous statement where are you looking to fly to? Don't forget Norwegian is knocked out of the equation at the moment

Any little bit of negative news and you lot are straight in here ,600 to 700 is still decent, I got a pretty good deal in september a multi round trip for 715 ,to the west coast plus a domestic flight.

£340 return to Newark in October, I thought pretty decent

High fares means yields will be better which is excellent news for the airlines on the route and therefore the airport :confused:

Dub to NYC 7th to 21st August £430................... and not really looked that hard either.

Got a good deal, BHD-LHR-JFK mid dec for under€370

Get a grip, mate. You'll want paying to fly next...

Well if you will fly from really really small minor airports, what do you expect ?

it is called a feeder service, friend.

Think the key word here is "JULY"

He can get a bus to Dublin and save money. His choice.

March traffic up 8% to 2.5m

European up 11% to 1.2m
UK up 7% to 861k
Transatlantic up 11% to 285k
M East down 8% to 72k - ET, EY cuts and very poor loads on HU new route.
Domestic up 3% to 8k

Over 6.5m year to date up 8% (460k).

https://www.dublinairport.com/latest...rport-in-march