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United to fly to Dublin from San Francisco

United Airlines has made this announcement:

Traveling between the Silicon Valley and Dublin, Ireland – two of the world’s leading centers of technology and innovation – will soon get a lot easier. Today United Airlines announced that it will launch new daily nonstop service from its hub at San Francisco International Airport to the Irish capital beginning June 5, 2020. United will be the only U.S. airline to offer daily flights direct to Dublin from the West Coast.

United will operate its new San Francisco-Dublin daily nonstop flights with the fuel-efficient Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. With the launch of this new service, United will have more daily business class seats between Dublin and the U.S. this summer than any other domestic airline.

Proposed Flight Schedule, Beginning June 5, 2020*
Flight	Frequency	City Pair	Depart	Arrive	Aircraft
UA 852	Daily	SFO – DUB	3:55 p.m.	9:45 a.m. +1	787-8
UA 853	Daily	DUB – SFO	11:50 a.m.	2:20 p.m.	787-8
*Subject to government approval

United in Ireland

United has proudly served Ireland for more than two decades. With the addition of San Francisco, the airline will offer customers direct flights to Dublin from four of its hubs, including Chicago O’Hare, Washington Dulles and Newark / New York. United provides seasonal service to Shannon, Ireland from Newark / New York as well.

United’s San Francisco Hub

From the Bay Area, United operates more than 300 flights each day to over 100 cities in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia – more flights to more destinations than any other airline. Along with Dublin, United offers nonstop service out of San Francisco International to seven major European cities including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Munich, Paris and Zurich. United continues to provide unparalleled access to points across the globe from its SFO hub, adding direct flights to 13 top international destinations since 2013 alone.

WestJet adds the Calgary – Dublin route

WestJet made this announcement:

With the departure of flight WS6 late on June 1, WestJet becomes the only airline operating a nonstop route between Calgary and Dublin. The airline’s newest route provides historic access between Western Canada and Ireland and is the last of three Boeing 787 Dreamliner inaugurals that are central to WestJet’s global strategy and focus on Calgary as its initial Dreamliner hub.

WestJet’s newest Dreamliner route adds to its existing 787-9 flights between Calgary, Paris and London (Gatwick), supporting tourism and trade between Europe and Canada. In addition, WestJet’s Calgary-Dublin service complements its existing seasonal Halifax-Dublin route. WestJet has been operating flights to Dublin from Eastern Canada since 2014.

Flights between Calgary and Dublin are operated by the airline’s fleet of 320-seat, Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft featuring WestJet’s business, premium and economy cabins.

By June 2019, WestJet will offer flights to 67 nonstop destinations with an average of 975 flights per week from Calgary. More Calgarians choose WestJet for their air travel than any other airline.

Details of WestJet’s new non-stop Dreamliner service:

Route	Frequency	Departing	Arriving	Effective
Calgary – Dublin	3X weekly (Wed., Sat., Sun.)	8:45 p.m.	11:36 a.m. +1	June 1 to October 5, 2019
Calgary – Dublin	2x weekly (Wed. and Sat.)	8:45 p.m.	11:36 a.m. +1	October 6 to October 19, 2019
Route	Frequency	Departing	Arriving	Effective
Dublin – Calgary	3X weekly (Mon., Thu., Sun.)	1:40 p.m.	3:02 p.m.	June 2 to October 6, 2019
Dublin – Calgary	2X weekly (Thu., Sun.)	1:40 p.m.	3:02 p.m.	October 7 to October 20, 2019

Top Copyright Photo: WestJet Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner C-GURP (msn 64975) YYZ (TMK Photography). Image: 946082.

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airBaltic extends Dublin route into winter season

airBaltic has announced a decision to continue the scheduled flights between Riga and Dublin, Ireland also during the winter season. The flights will take place four times per week.

Destination served

Flight frequency

Price *,

Basic

Price *,

Premium

Price*,

Business

Riga–Dublin

4 flights weekly

39 EUR

99 EUR

589 EUR

*Lowest fare (one way), including taxes, fees and service charges.

WestJet inaugurates Halifax and Dublin nonstop

WestJet made this announcement:

As the carrier with the most transatlantic flights from Halifax, WestJet on April 29 began its new nonstop service between Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ) and Dublin Airport (DUB).

WestJet has served the city of Halifax since 2003 and has seen 160 per cent growth in flights to and from Halifax Stanfield. This summer the airline will operate non-stop service to 15 cities with an average of 28 departures per day from Halifax.

Photo: Halifax Stansfield Airport.

WestJet has operated to Dublin, Ireland since 2014 and on June 1 will bring one of its first three Dreamliner aircraft to the city with nonstop service from Calgary.

Details of WestJet’s new non-stop service:

Route	Frequency	Departing	Arriving	Effective
Halifax-Dublin	6x weekly	10:20 p.m.	7:32 a.m. +1	April 29, 2019
Dublin-Halifax	6x weekly	9:00 a.m.	11:02 a.m.	April 30, 2019

airBaltic starts Riga – Stuttgart flights

airBaltic yesterday, on March 31, 2019, launched the second summer route connecting Riga and Stuttgart, Germany. In additon, this evening airBaltic will start flights between Riga and Lviv, Ukraine.

Destination served

Flight frequency

Start date

Price *,

Basic

Price *,

Premium

Price*,

Business

Riga–Stuttgart

4 flights weekly

March 31, 2019

49 EUR

105 EUR

399 EUR

Riga–Lviv

4 flights weekly

April 1, 2019

49 EUR

115 EUR

399 EUR

airBaltic will operate both routes – Riga–Stuttgart and Riga–Lviv – four times a week. Passengers will travel to Stuttgart with Airbus A220-300 aircraft and the flight will last 2 hours and 15 minutes, but to Lviv airBaltic will fly Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircraft and the flight is scheduled to last an hour and 50 minutes.

In other news, airBaltic on March 31, 2019, launched scheduled flights between Riga and Dublin, Ireland. Now airBaltic flies with the most modern commercial aircraft Airbus A220-300 aircraft to Dublin four times a week.

Finally, airBaltic on March 30, 2019 in Riga welcomed its 16^th Airbus A220-300 jet of 2019, registered as YL-AAP (above). This was the second Airbus A220-300 received this year and six more new aircraft will join the airline’s fleet by the end of the year.

airBaltic serves over 70 destinations from Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius.

Photos: airBaltic.

airBaltic is coming to Dublin

airBaltic has announced that starting March 31, 2019 it will launch scheduled flights between Riga and Dublin, Ireland. The flights will take place four times per week

airBaltic will operate new Airbus A220-300s on the route.

Destination served

Flight frequency

Start date

Price *,

Basic

Price *,

Premium

Price*,

Business

Riga – Dublin

4 flights weekly

March 31, 2019

39 EUR

99 EUR

589 EUR

*Lowest fare (one way), including taxes, fees and service charges, on www.airBaltic.com, subject to availability

WestJet to launch seasonal, nonstop service to Dublin from Halifax

WestJet today announced it is adding to its growing Atlantic gateway from Halifax with the addition of daily nonstop service to Dublin, Ireland starting April 29, 2019 and operating through October 25, 2019.

(CNW Group/WESTJET, an Alberta Partnership)

Details of WestJet’s service between Halifax and Dublin

Route	Frequency	Departing	Arriving	Effective
Halifax – Dublin	Daily	10:20 p.m.	7:33 a.m.+1	April 29, 2019
Dublin – Halifax	Daily	9:00 a.m.	11:02 a.m.	April 30, 2019

WestJet has served Halifax International Airport for 15 years and this summer will operate non-stop service to 16 cities including London (Gatwick), Paris, Dublin, Glasgow, Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. At peak summer schedule, the airline will operate more than 25 flights per day from YHZ.

Top Copyright Photo (all others by WestJet): WestJet Airlines Boeing 737-8 MAX 8 C-GXAX (msn 60512) LAX (Michael B. Ing). Image: 944507.

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Air Canada celebrates the launch of seasonal service to Ireland from Montreal

Air Canada has made this announcement:

The arrival of flight AC818 at Dublin Airport, Ireland, on the morning of June 3, 2018 marks the successful launch of nonstop service between Montreal and Dublin. Flights will be operated until October 12, 2018, using Air Canada’s newest single-aisle aircraft, the Boeing 737-8 MAX 8 featuring a Premium Economy and Economy cabin configuration.

Air Canada has configured its Boeing 737-8 MAX 8 with two cabins of service: Premium Economy and Economy. Features of the new aircraft include:

Premium comfort and ambiance with improved seats and innovative LED mood lighting along the ceiling;
An upgraded in-flight entertainment system with a sleek, new 15 language user interface. Coming soon, passengers will be able to stream video and audio to their own devices;
Upgraded overhead storage space compartments offer additional space for every single passenger to bring a carry-on bag;
The latest quiet engine technology with up to 40 per cent noise reduction, offering more peace and quiet for customers when flying;
The Boeing 737 MAX burns 20 per cent less fuel per seat than the previous Next-Generation 737.

Flight	Departs	Arrives	Days of Week
AC818	Montreal 21:15	Dublin 8:25 + 1 day	Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday
AC819	Dublin 10:20	Montreal 12:00	Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday

In 2018, Air Canada is launching ten new destinations from Montreal: London, Windsor, Victoria (Canada); Tokyo–Narita, (Japan); Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Baltimore(U.S.); Dublin (Ireland); Lisbon (Portugal) and Bucharest (Romania).

Air Canada, Air Canada Rouge and its regional airline partners flying under the Air Canada Express banner operate on average approximately 2,400 flights per week between Montreal and 97 destinations: 26 in Canada, including 9 in Quebec, 23 in the United States, 26 in the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico, 16 in Europe, one in China, one in Japan two in North Africa, one in the Middle East and one in South America.

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Lanmei Airlines to add new international routes

Lanmei Airlines is expanding. The new carrier will add the Phnom Penh – Hanoi, Siem Reap – Ho Chi Ming City and Shihananoukville – Hong Kong routes on December 20, 2017 according to Airline Route.

Lanmei Airlines (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. was founded on March 7, 2016, and commenced its first flight on September 29, 2017. The AOC was granted on August 15, 2017.

The maiden flight of Lanmei Airlines by an Airbus A320 was from Sihanoukville to Macau and onward to Palau (above). The flight from Macau to Palau boarded 144 passengers and 177 ones from Macau to Sihanoukville.

To commemorate this special day, Lanmei Airlines prepared carefully for its maiden flight celebration. Lanmei Airlines’ staff presented customized postcard, scarf, free SIM card etc. to each passenger at three terminals. Its cabin crew continued surprises in the sky: free flight tickets, stewardess scarves, aircraft models, customized blankets and USB flash discs were lucky draws. Each time a lucky passenger won, the whole cabin turned into a sea of joy.

According to the airline:

Named after Lancang-Mekong River, Lanmei Airlines’ logo looks like a peacock spreading its tails. Lanmei Airlines chooses peacock as logo because it symbolizes propitious totem in both oriental and western culture. The six feather of the wings-like logo represents the six Greater Mekong River countries who are the community of shared destiny & shared river. The logo also looks like a rotating aircraft engine, implying to supply new and steady thrust to these six nations.

Copyright Photo: Michael Kelly (all others by Lanmei Airlines). This ex-Monarch Airlines Airbus A321-232, now painted for Cambodian LCC Lanmei Airlines as XU-919 (msn 3522, ex G-ZBAL) departed Dublin on delivery to Cambodia on the evening of December 8, 2017.

Ryanair to open its 77th base at Belfast International, starts “honoring” some of its passengers

Ryanair (Dublin) on January 7 announced it will open a new base at Belfast International Airport, starting in March, with one based aircraft and a four daily flights to London (Gatwick). The base will grow to three aircraft and five more new routes from October 2016. Belfast is the 77th base for the ultra low-fare carrier.

Copyright Photo: Michael Kelly/AirlinersGallery.com. Ryanair has initiated a campaign “honoring” some of their passengers by displaying their image on some aircraft. In this image, passenger ” Nelly Langedijk ” from the Netherlands is featured on the nose of Boeing 737-8AS EI-DAH (msn 33546) pictured at the Dublin base.

Ryanair issued this statement on the “30 Names 30 Planes” program:

“On July 8, 2015 to celebrate its new Facebook account and 30th birthday, Ryanair launched a ’30 Names 30 Planes’ competition, offering 30 fans the chance to have their name and face pictured on one of 30 Ryanair aircraft. Entry was through the Ryanair Facebook page, where fans uploaded their photo and downloaded a CGI video of their own Ryanair aircraft bearing their name and face. After over 80,000 entries the 30 lucky winners were announced in October 2015.”

According to Ryanair, the first decals were fitted in the first week of December 2015 and the decals will be fitted for up to six months.

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