Apart from DY starting OSL/CPH later this month I cant think of anything!

but dont all the new airbridges look good in the e-pier! Malev going in October seems a done deal. Is this not the second time DY have tried routes out of Dublin? Seems very strange time of the year to start anything.

Well going by all the angels of death in the other threads, Dublin if we exclude FR and EI, remember other airlines are available lol but the list is getting shorter granted, seems to be heading towards a state of the art structure with next to no traffic, at least when the Celtic Tiger gets home from the vet and is all cured we will have a nice new underused Airport to accept all the economic migrants/immigrants in or out off!!!

DY previously tried WAW-DUB, at the time EI, FR and C0 all had flights from DUB to WAW, CPH and OSL have a little less competition.

When is pier E (T2) opening??

What operations will be flying out of there?? its not going to be full of R*******s ( that airline) is it?

Do you honestly think Ryanair would pay to use T2???? LOL!

T2 is being built with US Customs and immigration incorporated. It will primarily be used for longhaul carriers and im sure the few quality airlines serving DUB such as WX/BD/EY/IB/LH etc. It is due to open I believe in time for the summer schedule next year however I believe Aer Lingus will not be shifting their operation to T2 until October 2010!

Hope that helps!

Is ireland the only place where you can clear US customs???

And does anyone have any info on what charter carriers are expected this year at DUB.

No, I've cleared US customs before in Toronto.

You can clear US customs and immigration in Canada and Aruba I believe. They are the only two countries along with Ireland.

Noticed this in the Belfast Telegraph should anyone be interested...

Etihad to hold Dublin open day in bid to fill 50 positions - Ireland, Breaking News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Nothing new there! Sure everyone wants a bit of the Irish

IAA website with details of the proposed 'new' "new control tower".

The current tower's view of Rwy 29 (currently closed) is obscured by the new D gates, and with plans to ultimately replace 29 with 28R a new tower will be needed (or so I'm told)

IAA Dublin Control Tower

JAS

Some good news filtering through; Etihad is looking to increase services on some existing routes, with DUB and MAN competing for possible new services; a strong possibility is that DUB could receive 3 extra weekly flights, bringing it up to 10 pw. The airline is taking delivery of more acft later this year.

highlighting once more what a dogs dinner Aer Lingus made of the Dubai route.

Passenger numbers down 15% in August and 13% in July. In both months 2.1 million passengers counted.

It doesnt prove EI made a mess of DXB! What it proves is there is great demand for onwards connections from AUH, EI didnt have the onward feed from DXB.

I'm afraid Bearcat is right on this, EC-ILS; of all the errors DM made while CEO of EI, this was the biggest. He seemed to have learned nothing from his long experience at EK ... the value of a consistent product, good marketing and scheduling. Had EI marketed this and entered into an interline agreement with EK, then the DXB route could have been a success; there was more than sufficient numbers of pax (and even still, despite the recession) flying between Asia and Ireland to justify a direct service, feeding into a major hub like DXB.

The failure of DXB raises the question with me: was the main objective to keep EK out, as it was rumoured around that time that they were looking closely at DUB as a possible route.

I was under the impression their was no interlin agreement signd with EK because EK wanted nothing to do with the rather dissapointing EI long haul product?

There again, another reason where they got it very wrong; there wasn't an awful lot that needed to be done to make it a very good product (and it's not as if EK's - for all their hype - are the world's greatest); a little consistency and better IFE and they'd have had a much better product, yet even for what was arguably the most important new route development in their recent history, they couldn't do that ... basically gave the market away to EY.

Anyway, that's a discussion for the EI thread, so I just want to refocus on DUB's long haul potential, such as it is; good to see EY growing anyway, but what other growth opportunities are there? I'm wondering what changes, if any, the DAA would need to put into place to make DUB more attractive to long haul low cost operators like Air Asia X and Jetstar?

It seems to me that long haul low cost is the wave of the future and the DAA needs to incentivise the development of this kind of operation at DUB; the less spent on travel to a destination, the more available to spend there; our proximity to the US, combined with Open Skies and the various US agencies (Immigration/Customs pre-clearance) available here, should make Ireland much more attractive to visit, but the mere existence of these doesn't make it so; we need to be aggressive in pushing it.

Any Dublin updates regaridng anyone other than MOL or EI?

Is there really much of a Dublin without MOL or EI??!