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
In 2019 London’s Heathrow Airport was Europe’s busiest, welcoming 80.9m passengers. This was almost five million more than Paris CDG (76.2m) and nine million more than third ranked Amsterdam (71.7m). However, UK air travel was more severely impacted than other European countries when the pandemic struck in 2020 and Heathrow slipped to third that year […]
February 27, 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 +
Analysis by Air Service One, suggests that the first week (30 October to 5 November) of the northern hemisphere winter season (W22/23) has seen the launch of at least 168 new airline routes involving at least one airport in Europe (not including Russia). However, it is possible that we may have missed a few, and […]
November 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Dublin Airport celebrated the opening of its new northern runway on Wednesday 24 August. The first flight to use the new runway was flight FR1964 to Eindhoven, operated by Ryanair’s 737 MAX 8-200 (registration EI-HAW), which departed at 12:10 local time, according to flightradar24.com. Construction of the 3,100-metre runway began in 2016 and was mostly […]
August 25, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
One of Europe’s fastest growing airports before the pandemic, DUB is soaring once again with new routes, new airlines and a new runway due to go live this year. As Ireland’s main international gateway, DUB has a major impact on the Irish economy; the connectivity it provides underpins trade, tourism and foreign direct investment. According […]
June 21, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America
It looks set to be a landmark year for Dublin Airport – planes should be cleared for take-off from the new North Runway sometime in 2022, marking an exciting new era for the airport and Ireland. The delivery of the runway was a key recommendation of the Irish government’s National Aviation Policy. Not only will […]
May 17, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
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