Ireland

The Irish High Court stayed the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) capping capacity at Dublin Airport (DUB) to 25.2 million seats for the 2025 summer schedule.

British aviation engineering firm 2Excel Aviation has stood up an Irish business to support a new search-and-rescue contract.

Fly4, co-owned by German leisure giant TUI and Poland’s Enter Air, is hoping to secure its air operator’s certificate (AOC) in early 2024.

CDB Aviation CEO Jie Chen said this is the first major sustainability-linked loan syndicated facility among aircraft lessors.

The report was commissioned by SkyNRG and SFS Ireland, in partnership with Avolon, Boeing and ORIX Aviation.

Ireland-headquartered aviation-services firm Avia Solutions Group (ASG) has acquired UK-based Synergy Aviation.

The routes to destinations in Greece and Italy will launch during summer 2023.

The Israeli carrier originally intended to open a route during summer 2020.

Traffic for 2022 has surpassed daa's expectations.

Dublin Airport MD Vincent Harrison tells Routes about the airport’s recovery during the summer season; what new routes have been secured; and why its new North Runway will be vital for future growth.

“We’re cautiously optimistic for the winter, but I think it’s going to be a very tough time for some of our competitors,” Ryanair's Jason McGuinness tells Routes.

The service will become Cleveland’s first direct link to Europe in more than four years.

The airline will face competition on both of the new services being launched this winter.

The airline is also increasing frequencies on existing routes from Dublin to both Chicago O’Hare and Washington Dulles.

The Irish flag-carrier will serve the US from Dublin, Manchester and Shannon this summer.

The counties have been without a nonstop connection for more than six years.

The ULCC is gearing up to operate more capacity this summer than before the pandemic but admitted that price cuts would be needed to stimulate demand.

The ULCC said the robust schedule was the 'direct result' of Dublin Airport Authority introducing its Traffic Recovery Support Scheme.

The codeshare agreement follows Aer Lingus’ entry to the oneworld transatlantic joint venture in late 2020.

Emerald Airlines will initially offer 11 routes from Dublin under a franchise agreement with Aer Lingus.

The carrier already operates to Dublin from Halifax and its Calgary base.

The Irish carrier plans to relaunch US, Europe routes ahead of the winter holidays.

The LCC said ORK's operator extended a COVID-19 recovery scheme at the airport until October 2022, providing an incentive to reopen the base with two aircraft.

The LCC group is significantly boosting its five-year passenger traffic target.

Head of network planning Wilken Bellmann tells Routes the UK and Ireland would be a 'great strategic fit' for the airline’s network.