New Dublin service at NCL starts tomorrow.

Famous last words?

EI also operated one daily DUB-BRS and they do quite well on it even with FR on the route.

At the moment DUB-BRS doesn’t seem to be bookable with EI beyond the end of March 07.

Unfortunately, this appears to underline what I was saying about DUB – NCL. I hope that I am wrong…

Thing with FR is they have little if no presence at NCL it almost looks like they dont want to be there. You dont feel like ryanair operate at newcastle when your in the local area or the terminal. NCL at the moment is all about Jet2 and easyjet there going head to head on a few routes. I doubt we have heard the last from jet2 either when it comes to new routes at newcastle. They are advertising allot in the local area.

I think EI will fit in just nicely once they have got them selves running smoothly.

Over-capacity?

Hi,

This struck me as being a rather odd choice of route for EI.

After having taken a beating on DUB – LPL, they have chosen a market where conditions are arguably worse.

In my view, there is already over-capacity in the DUB – NCL / MME market. Although FR have succeeded in increasing passenger numbers on DUB – NCL, load factors have been weak since the introduction of the B738s (see CAA stats). DUB – MME has been suffering from a similar problem, which has led to the frequency reduction over the winter. Now EI are trying to join what appears to be an already saturated market.

FRs’s dominance of the UK – Ireland market shows clearly that price beats service in the vast majority of cases and EIs average short haul fare is nearly double that of FR. Consequently, I would be surprised if EI are still flying NCL – DUB in a years time, but then again, my predictions are usually spectacularly wrong…

The market will decide.

Here it is on the boards! ( I hope Runway 25 is in use )

EI307 15:30 DUBLIN

Starting tomorrow i think this will be an excellent service for NCL at least we now have a dublin flight leaving at a decent time!! i shall be booking a flight soon me thinks gotta a stag night coming up haha

No its starts tommorow. Tomorrow is the first day of the scheduled airlines winter timetable.

Its not a great day for DUB as we have no more Germanwings or Alitalia flights.

It’s only just starting? I thought it had been in operation by now.

Obviously not :rolleyes:

It’s only just starting? I thought it had been in operation by now.

I think the main reason it will do well is the timing of the flight.

FR currently have 2 rotations, early morning (07:30ish) and late evening (22:00ish).

Aer Lingus are offering as the third daily service from NCL an afternoon flight between the two airports – its a perfect alternative to stupid arrival and departure times with Ryanair.

And if it keeps the flight prices down.. I’m all for it 🙂

Well EI started DUB-LPL onece daily in competition with Ryanair and that has since been suspended but they also operated one daily DUB-BRS and they do quite well on it even with FR on the route.

Do Aer Lingus have assigned seating?

But on the otherhand EI offer a better service quality and sometimes people want that. Well we’ll see how it all goes in the future, good luck to EI 😀

It will be interesting to see who the North East public go for. I personally think FR will beat EI as there fares are lower and people have used them for a long while now.

The aircraft is an A320

New Service to dublin from NCL with Aerlingus starting tomorrow so that means some competition for ryanair. What do people think of the route then will it work etc??

Also what aircraft will operate the route??

A320. Good luck to EI and well done to them for giving FR some competetion. 🙂