Aha! Thanks. I'd assumed it would be harder than that. I only discovered it because he works for a company based near the airport and suggested a pint at Keeley's first.

There have been some changes announced to Dublin Bus timetables.
I think this means that the 41A, but not the 41, and the 16 but not the 16A will serve the airport. Quite a difference if you are heading to the airport
In fact, the 41A won't head towards the city at all, if this map is correct.
Oh for the days when you could take a 41 to Drumcondra and swap to a 16A that had completed its meander through Beaumont.

Not sure of the start date for the changes.

http://www.dublinbus.ie/PageFiles/73...copy%20(2).pdf

http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/Network-D...am--Terenure1/

Can't believe how stupid bmi was to end the early DUB-LHR flight. The BD122 this morning was completely full with a relatively good load in flexible economy, the next few mornings this week are looking just as busy. This morning's flight reminded me of the old glorious days when bmi competed comfortably on this route with full A321's all day.

I am just happy to see this service back and doing well so soon. Its shows that bmi have potential on this route if only they sort out the issues with the frequency and revenue management.

And don't go bust first!

I wonder if the sale of BMI regional will mean an end to those poncy ERJs on the DUB route.

And I was on the early morning BD flight from DUB on Monday morning and it was completely full too (even though Monday was an Irish holiday)

Only an A319 aircraft, but still 130+ passengers on board .. hopefully they can sort the fares out on this and make it profitable (I suspect quite a good number of passengers were on long haul connections from LHR which probably doesn't nett BD much cash but I guess the "taxes" may make these connections more profitable these days?)

Only downside was the aircraft arrived in on an international gate so we had to get bussed off all of 50 yards to the baggage hall entrance - wasn't too bad as the buses and steps were ready for the arrival but it's still a bit of a pain and something that never happens with Aer Lingus in my experience.

I think they've a few gates ( 76 & 78? ) that they can swap between Republic of Ireland arrivals and international arrivals inside the terminal and that can remove the need for bussing if an inbound aircraft comes in from DUB but is going on to an international sector (or vice versa I guess) but it seems too frequent that theses are already in use with aircraft that aren't changing to/from Dublin flights ... I don't know if this is a BAA issue or a BMI ramp management issue but it seems to mean that Dublin flights enjoy more than their fair share of bussing most of which I think shouldn't be necessary.

I have to say I like them especially the single seats up front. Not as nice as the Midhaul J I will admit Still makes a change.

Im glad they have the early flight back also. Dont know what they were thinking when they axed that . Another bright idea from someone that thought it up . At least it opens up the connections again .

On a side note I wish they would refurb the DUB lounge similar to the LHR Domestic one. It wouldnt even cost them that much to do its such a small space. Im sure they could do a deal with the DAA lounge to use theirs for a week whilst they closed it for the work.

I would say any refurbishment to the DUB lounge would be driven by a collective agreement between BD/LX/LH/TK and whichever other airlines' pax use it. Having a BD lounge at all at an outstation with 4 rotations a day probably isn't very sustainable.

Looking at the Summer timetable it's really not pretty

4 per day weekday flights remain though the early morning DUB departure has now slipped back to 0745 which doesn't get into LHR until 0900 .. not really that competitive for ex DUB business traffic (early morning LHR departure remains at 0700) .. also some bizarrely long turnarounds in Dublin can hardly help with them making any money from having expensive aircraft sitting on the ground (shortest turnaround in DUB is 75mins and the longest is 2 1/4 hrs which seems bizarre to say the least - it's like they're not even trying )

On a Saturday there's now only 2 flights

On a Sunday there's bizarrely 5 flights LHR-DUB and only 3 back DUB-LHR .. suspect that 3 is the correct figure and then the curse of bizarre BMI scheduling strikes again as there's one flight in the morning and two afternoon flights within just over an hour of eachother mid afternoon ... sensible spaced out scheduling not!

So despite the glimmer of hope that reintroducing the early DUB-LHR flight showed last autumn it looks as though death by a thousand bizarre schedule cuts is proceeding on the DUB route

Happy to hear all is well at the Hall. ^

Sarcasm

It looks like the Sunday scheduling is another bmi website "feature". It shows both the BD129 and BD131 leaving at the same time (17:15). If they can't fill one A319, they surely can't fill two at the same time. Why does no one at the Hall look at or test this stuff before they load it? Its no wonder the airline hemorrhages cash. Wouldn't an accurate booking system be the absolute holy grail for any airline?

Personally my fave is the totally unpredictable BD126 which is a different time each week night and on Friday can't be bothered to leave DUB until 21:35. What's their target market there????

The schedule to both Irish airports (including Belfast) has had unfathomable curiosities for a while and it continues. The reduction in service in somewhat understandable, but some of the timetabling on specific days of the week does leads to some serious head scratching.

bmi charter. Simples.

Logical I guess for the flights that seem to go to Dublin and don't come back .. but the odd long turnarounds still can't be accounted for by this really .. looks like the old long turnaround issues just getting even longer ( even 2 1/4 hours would be a bit short to squeeze in a charter rotation !)

What makes you think it's the same plane? The plane coming back could be headed off to another destination and the next plane out could be coming from somewhere else.

But also, aren't they limited by slots at LHR? Not much point in hurrying back if you don't have any more slots for to use the equipment on that day. And a lot of the flights could be slot parking flights in the first place.

Not at Dublin it's not flying off anywhere else (bar just possibly the odd weekend/night charter as GoldCircle mentions) .. The aircraft really is sitting around DUB for 2+ hrs ... Not a great way to use an expensive asset ! .. agreed on the slot issue at LHR, but surely they must be able to juggle the times around a bit better (years ago they used to be much more efficient )