Lufthansa has announced that they are adding a fifth daily service from Dublin to their main hub airport Frankfurt in Germany. The addition of the extra flight brings the number of flights on the route from 28 to 34 per week and increases the capacity by more than 20%. Welcoming today’s announcement, Dublin Airport Managing […]
Singapore Airlines have been named as the “World’s Best Airline” in the 2018 SkyTrax awards. They also took the top spot in the ‘World’s Best First Class’, ‘Best Airline in Asia’ and ‘Best First Class Airline Seat’ categories in the 2018 rankings. This is the fourth time SIA has been named ‘World’s Best Airline’. The […]
Over the last few years many airlines have tweaked their business models. While they obviously still want to generate revenue from selling tickets for flights many have turned to ancillary sources of revenue to boost their bottom line. But how much are they earning? According to figures reported by CarTrawler airlines have earned close to $30 […]
Dublin Airport‘s traffic has been growing steadily over the last couple of years. Today the largest airport in Ireland reported that their traffic had hit a new high, with 3.1 million passengers passing through the airport in June 2018. That’s a 7% increase on last year’s passenger numbers. Full release below: Dublin Airport welcomed more […]
Aer Lingus are currently offering up to 25% off flights to Europe. The offer covers bookings made at the moment for travel from August 21st 2018 through October 25th 2018. Fares start from as low as €24.99 one way. Full details over on the Aer Lingus site. Related Posts:IAG Buys 4.6% in NorwegianAer Lingus To […]
Heathrow Express has announced a number of changes to the way their tickets work effective immediately. (For some odd reason the change was brought in on May 2, but they only emailed customers today!) Up until now it was possible to use the tickets without being overly concerned about which direction you’d bought etc., However […]
The IAG Group, which owns both Aer Lingus and British Airways, as well as Iberia,. has acquired 4.6% of Norwegian’s shares. According to a statement issued by Norwegian via their Twitter account the company was unaware of the upcoming purchase of shares until after it was made, but view it as a positive endorsement of […]
Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport is one of the major hubs in Europe. If you fly regularly you’ll probably have passed through at some stage. These days it’s the main hub for KLM, but also serves pretty much every other airline you can think of. Earlier this week the airport celebrated its centenary and in honour of […]
KLM announced earlier today that it would start operating flights out of Dublin airport to its main hub at Amsterdam’s Schipol airport. Up until now KLM flights ex-Dublin were code shares with Aer Lingus. The new flights will run twice daily with departures ex-Dublin at 0555 and 1315 and departures ex-Schipol at 1200 and 2120. […]
Brussels airport was badly damaged in the recent terrorist attack. While the authorities tried to get the airport back to “normal” as quickly as possible, the airport is unlikely to return to full capacity until June or later. In the interim if you are planning to travel via Brussels airport you should: check for updates […]
