Aer Lingus has announced both the addition of three new routes for winter 2024 as well as the expansion of several existing ones. From the end of the October the Irish airline will be flying direct to three new destinations: They’ve also announced the addition of more flights to several existing routes. Faro in Portugal […]
Airports
Aer Lingus Regional Launching New Cork Bristol Route
Aer Lingus will be offering a direct service from Cork to Bristol. The service will run 6 times a week and will be operated by Emerald Airlines who run all flights for Aer Lingus Regional. The flights will be run using the ATR-72 turboprop aircraft, with seat capacity of 72 seats each way. The ATR-72 […]
Brussels Airport Closed due to Strikes
Brussels Airport (BRU) is closed today and there will be no flight departures all day due to strikes. It’s not clear what’s happening about flight arrivals or connecting flights. Looking at the airport’s official site it looks like a small number of flights are arriving, though the bulk of flights have been cancelled. The dispute […]
Heathrow Celebrates Platinum Jubilee
Heathrow airport is one of the biggest and busiest airports in Europe. It’s also got a close association with The Queen, which is why they’ve released a short video to highlight that relationship that spans most of her reign: There will be a flyover today in honour of the Jubilee which should be viewable in […]
Dublin Airport Plans Inspire Memes and other Comic Reactions
Dublin Airport’s owners DAA will be grilled by the government later today about how they plan to mitigate the current issues facing passengers at the airport. So what is the plan? Apparently passengers will be triaged on arrival and only given access to the terminal building 3.5 hours in advance of longhaul flights and 2.5 […]
Dublin Airport in Chaos
While Dublin Airport’s management might claim that they have taken steps to improve the situation for departing passengers they obviously have not done enough. Today Dublin airport is trending on Twitter and for all the wrong reasons. The lines to get into both terminals of the country’s main airport are snaking outside the buildings and […]
Flying Out of Dublin Airport? Allow Extra Time!
Over the past few weeks there have been a lot of anecdotal reports from travellers of delays at security at Dublin Airport. Friends and colleagues also reported having serious issues to me directly. So what’s going on? Apparently there is an issue with staffing at the airport. During the pandemic the airport was forced to […]
Holiday Travel Tips from Dublin Airport
The Christmas period is probably one of the busiest for travel. And of course some people will be travelling with gifts for friends and loved ones.. Dublin Airport sent out a release earlier today to remind people that the normal rules and restrictions around carry on (and checked) luggage don’t change for Christmas. Honest. Dublin […]