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THE FLYING COLUMN
Aviation with Gerry O’Hare
Toronto extended Year-round the goal of Air Canada Dublin service
AUSTRALIA launched their “best job in the world” 2013 version. The London telegraph listed 21 of the other best travel jobs in the world and also 15 of the worst travel jobs in the world, including cruise ship mortician and Ryanair PR manager. MINOAN
launched their Dublin-Oxford
service.
FLYBE announced they will operate four
times weekly on the Waterford-Manchester route from Monday, May 22, using a Dash8Q400. Passengers can book on just one booking transaction to include the connecting flight from Waterford via Birmingham to Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Guernsey, Paris CDG, Nice, Dusseldorf and Stuttgart.
WARSAW Modlin runway closure has
been extended until June 30, Ryanair will fly to Warsaw Chopin instead.
RYANAIR reported Feb traffic down
6pc to 4.20m (one day less than 2012), load factor up 1pc to 877pc, 79.3M passengers in 12 months, load factor 82pc.
The Air Canada Dublin-Toronto service will use a Boeing 767-300 aircraft “As well as benefiting from easy ir Canada has announced its following day. The airline will offer customers access to the city’s major commercial Dublin-Toronto service will run from May 18 to Sept 29, Economy Class and Comfort Plus centre and to its many tourism attracseats with Executive First business tions, our Irish customers can take adwith a daily departure at 13.05. class seating available on selected vantage of convenient connections to The airline will use one of the airdestinations across Canada, the line’s remaining 767-300 aircraft (the services. “We are pleased to serve the Irish United States, the Caribbean and others having been used to launch the new Air Canada low-cost brand market once again this summer. Latin America from our hub, Toronto Rouge), with fare prices from Toronto proves to be a popular desti- Pearson International Airport.” A daily year round service to €538.11 return inc. taxes. The return nation with both business and leisure customers in Ireland,” said Eamon Toronto remains the goal of Air AC894 will depart Toronto at 21.45 and arrive in Dublin at 9.45 Am the Flanagan, Air Canada, Sales Repre- Canada’s Irish operation. sentative Ireland.
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TOWARDS AN AVIATION POLICY
he Department of Transport launched an “ Integrated Irish Aviation Policy Issues Paper” for consultation. The consultation process wil take six weeks before
the paper goes back for approval prior to adopting policy in 2014. The paper is designed “to commence a consultation with stakeholders in the aviation industry” as a
follow up to the first Aviation Policy Conference for Ireland held last December. The Department plans to publish an initial draft National Aviation Policy Statement in the second
CANADA
Dublin to Canada nonstop all summer long. Visit aircanada.com or contact Air Canada Reservations on 00353 1 679 3958 or your IATA travel agent.
half of 2013. In the meantime it says submissions from all interested parties are welcome. Closing date June 30 to aviation policy@dttas.ie.
AER LINGUS reported
Feb traffic was down 1.5pc to 648,000 in Feb 2013 (28 days) from Feb 2012 (29 days) load factor 87.3pc down 1pc.
€1.3M is the figure for Christophe Mueller’s salary, while Andrew Macfarlane earned €876,000, according to Aer Lingus annual report. The Irish Independent approved: “while Mr Mueller's pay packet is large, he has turned the company around and given it a sense of purpose that was lacking for years, if not decades.”
EMIRATES launched triple daily flights to Perth.
CORK airport announced a record 2m
seats would be available from Cork to 50 destinations for summer 2013.
WIZZ AIR confirmed they are to discon-
tinue Cork routes to Gdansk, Katowice, Poznan from April/May. Cork, at one stage served by nine airlines, is now increasingly looking like it be served by just two.