Originally Posted by
Sealink
I'm not sure thats the case - I was speaking to a travel agent near Inverness who said that BA timings aren't great for connections,
Assuming people are connecting for the North American destinations, the following are the only Aer Lingus flights that you could do a same day connection at DUB with EI from the INV flight:
Toronto 13:35
Hartford 14:40
LA 15:00
Chicago 15:50
JFK 16:10
Boston 16:20
Of all of these destinations, only Hartford is not served from Heathrow; you can make a same-terminal change at T5 flying on BA from INV to any of the other destinations, not to mention to any of the other longhaul destinations served by BA that are not served from DUB.
Originally Posted by
Sealink
and they send a lot of people via Dublin because of US pre-clearance. And pricing.
Indeed, the pre-clearance is very handy, and price is always a factor - if your destination is served from Dublin.
However, the number of pax that flew from INV to DUB fell by over 22% last year, according to
official CAA data. Of all UK airports that had scheduled services to Dublin in both calendar years, only Bournemouth and Southend showed bigger percentage drops - due to the fact that both routes were terminated as year-round destinations during 2015 and had only sporadic service in 2016.
(By way of comparison, KLM increased its pax count by 26% to almost 42k in 2016, while BA posted 58k passengers from a standing start. I daresay there's a lot more connecting going on at AMS and LHR than at DUB, not only because the amount of passengers are several times h igher, but because there are far more viable connections to be made in those other hubs).