Dublin Airport

Scanned over comments so apologies if it missed much! Used to work in the airport in the dept that deals with development

Few points

The runway should see us as Heathrow's third runway but I wouldn't expect a while heap of new routes either, definitely a few us cities and one or two Asia but would be surprised if there's loads. Transfer pax have been growing hugely and this will definitely help that even more.

T2 is full/over capacity in the mornings up until 11am which is when most airlines want to go, especially to the US, a lot of long haul airlines won't use t1 and won't fly another time, this does lose routes

The airport as a whole isn't far off capacity either, hence some airlines now need to use buses to get to their planes

If I wasn't bound by confidentiality I could shred that post even more

nvidic wrote: If I wasn't bound by confidentiality I could shred that post even more

Denis Irwin wrote: Wonder will IAG lauch flights to Vancouver or will the fact Air Canada Rouge are going to be flying it put them off. They may look at Montreal instead

Rouge only have six flights on that route I think, would be a candidate, they've done well in Toronto, miami and texas would be certs I'd imagine, Hong Kong or Beijing, one India as well, can't imagine then being greater than thrice weekly

You're incorrect that they've not been working with Norwegian, you're incorrect they should have been there early, they were at them from the start, Norwegian have been there for years

You're incorrect Aer Lingus will be getting a350s, anyone who worked for iag would know this

Your level of understanding of why Gatwick and Dublin don't compare and don't compete for Norwegian long haul routes could be exposed by a 15 year old

Several airlines have tried and failed to compete with Ryanair in dublin, all have failed, none will hub there, it is far from safe to chase that end and would almost definitely fail

Your post has a huge lack of understanding of the economics of airlines and airports, how and why airlines choose routes and what's needed for a hub, and I've zero doubt you don't work for an airline (shock horror) as you wouldn't have made such a post working for one for a week

Ooofffttt that's gotta hurt

Smackdown 

Remember it well! Was cologne away and I'd only just started there, Was sickened when I seen ye all, was trying awful hard to avoid the terminal that day!

Nvidic