Dublin Airport

A hape of new transatlantic flights to new destinations and a load of connecting flights from all over Europe. It's the obvious option, given our geographic position. The number of long distance flights that fly near or over Ireland is huge and there is definitely a market for connecting transatlantic passengers, especially from the UK.

The reason we aren't a huge transatlantic hub at the minute is because so much of the capacity is used transporting people to and from Europe. With large demand for access to European cities from Dublin and back, DAA can't give loads of slots to transatlantic flights for transfer passengers.

However, with a second runway, and an effective doubling of capacity, not to mention the capacity constraints at Heathrow, along with the IAG/EI merger, and the spare capacity of T2, increased transatlantic transfer flights are almost inevitable.

A second runaway is a huge boost for Dublin, particularly IAG (The owners of Aer Lingus) Aer Lingus have a number of new A350's coming in to their line I'm sure they'll be delighted by the news. 

Edited by SByrne24 - 07 Apr 2016 at 10:56pm

That would demand a complete business model change from Ryanair though. They are currently a point to point airline who do not offer connecting flights.

Byrner how do you find DAA to deal with?  I find them not very accommodating and have trouble getting my Private 747 parked in one of the hangars when I drop in for Ireland home matches from my private island off the coast of Cuba.

SByrne24 wrote: SuperDave84 wrote: That would demand a complete business model change from Ryanair though. They are currently a point to point airline who do not offer connecting flights. So were Norwegian, who now fly to LA, New York Boston among other American destinations. Wouldn't require anything of the sort copy Norwegian simple as that, direct to Gatwick to New York from £200. That's the next step in our industry budget airlines heading Long Haul, that's were our profit is mainly. I personally hope O'Leary sticks to flying to Ex Millitary airports in Europe.

Wait a second, though: do Norwegian offer connecting flight service? Or do they merely run a number of point to point transatlantic services? I don't know the answer to that, incidentally.

If they offer connecting services, well, I stand corrected.

You would think a well educated pilot could spell 'hangar'......

I think he is completely oblivated.

SByrne24 wrote: Well... TJ, me and the Dublin ATC don't get along in a previous encounter were I managed to delay a few planes while holding short of Yankee Bravo I think, I was doing checks with the captain the cheeky bitch keep telling us to move and in future don't do this and that, she informed Heathrow ATC of our ignorance to return the favour we were circling for 15 minutes. I think I'd be right in saying there isn't a hanger big enough for a 747 in Dublin by the way.

Maybe that was it.  Anyway I had to park it off near the St.Margarets side of the airport away from the terminals.  When I came back the next day some scrotes had nicked the wheels off of it.

Trap junior wrote: SByrne24 wrote: Well... TJ, me and the Dublin ATC don't get along in a previous encounter were I managed to delay a few planes while holding short of Yankee Bravo I think, I was doing checks with the captain the cheeky bitch keep telling us to move and in future don't do this and that, she informed Heathrow ATC of our ignorance to return the favour we were circling for 15 minutes. I think I'd be right in saying there isn't a hanger big enough for a 747 in Dublin by the way. Maybe that was it.  Anyway I had to park it off near the St.Margarets side of the airport away from the terminals.  When I came back the next day some scrotes had nicked the wheels off of it.