El Al added a second new destination in Europe to its network this month by launching flights between Tel Aviv and Dublin on Thursday 16 March. The 4,040-kilometre 3-weekly service operates on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays with the 737-800 aircraft. There is no other airline flying between the two cities. Flight LY303 departs Tel Aviv at 16:15 local […]
March 22, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Ryanair will fly to 232 airports this summer, of which Dublin is the second most served (after London STN). According to Cirium schedules information data, it has almost six million one-way seats from the Irish capital, a considerable 20% increase versus S19 and 9% year-on-year. This expansion means that the ULCC has over half (53%) […]
March 20, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The importance of the UK to Ireland market cannot be overstated. In 2022, over 28,000 people flew between the two countries each day, according to UK Civil Aviation Authority data. While this includes those who transferred to other flights, the majority were local. Across the whole year, more than 10.3 million people were transported. While […]
March 7, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Aer Lingus has added Southampton on the UK’s south coast to its route network from Dublin. The 435-kilometre route will be flown daily on behalf of Aer Lingus by Emerald Airlines using its ATR 72-600s. Competition on the route is provided by Eastern Airways, which also offers a daily service using ATRs. It launched its […]
November 9, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Croatia Airlines, an airline not normally noted for much route development activity, has been growing its scheduled services from Split. During the second week of June it has added services to: Bucharest (10 June, 2-weekly) Stockholm ARN (10 June, 2-weekly) Dublin (12 June, 3-weekly) Milan MXP (12 June, 2-weekly) Amsterdam (14 June, weekly) This brings […]
June 16, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Ireland’s busiest airport is seeing traffic recover rapidly in 2022. Though passenger numbers were down 52% in January compared with 2019, the latest figures for April show that demand is now at 85% of the level it was three years ago, in other words, down just 15%. Schedule data provided by the airlines suggests that […]
May 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Aurigny (IATA code GR) the regional carrier based in Guernsey (one of the Channel Islands between England and France) launched a new route on Wednesday 16 March between Guernsey and Dublin. Originally set to launch at the beginning of the summer season at the end of March, the launch was brought forward to enable passengers […]
March 17, 2022 | Latest Route News +
This week sees the start of new Irish regional carrier Emerald Airlines (IA5TA code EA) operating a number of routes between Dublin and destinations in the UK on behalf or Aer Lingus (IATA code EI). As previously noted, on some of these routes it will replace Aer Lingus mainline, on some it will complement Aer […]
March 16, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Emerald Airlines (IATA code EA) became Ireland’s newest airline when it operated its first flight (on behalf of Aer Lingus Regional) on Saturday 26 February between Dublin and Donegal (IATA code CFN which represents the nearby town of Carrickfinn) in the north-west of Ireland. The 225-kilometre route will be operated 2-daily by the carrier using […]
March 1, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
Ryanair recently announced that it would be offering its largest ever summer schedule from its home base at Dublin in Ireland. This will comprise 121 routes (as of 24 January) with over 930 weekly departures currently scheduled for August 2022. That compares with 100 routes and 885 weekly departures in August 2019 based on analysis […]
Plovdiv Airport in southern central Bulgaria celebrated the arrival of its first ever service operated by Wizz Air on Wednesday 3 November when flights from both London LTN and Dortmund touched down at the airport. The UK route will be served 3-weekly (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) while the German service will be welcomed on Wednesdays […]
Loganair launched an international route from Aberdeen on Sunday 5 August when it introduced 4-weekly service to Dublin. The inaugural service on the 490-kilometre route (flight number LM 51 operated by an Embraer ERJ-135, registration G-SAJT) departed Aberdeen at 10:16 and touched down in Dublin just under an hour later at 11:15. The return flight […]
September 7, 2021 | Latest Route News +