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Civil Aviation => Aircraft Movements => City Of Derry => Topic started by: Angry Turnip on March 28, 2015, 12:07:23 PM

Title: New Routes
Post by: Angry Turnip on March 28, 2015, 12:07:23 PM

Just noticed this on BBC website - LDY>DUB? Be interesting to see how popular/well used that is - but I suppose it's a 3hr / 150 mile drive on a quiet day, so if you can afford to fly it, why not?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-32088996

Title: Re: New Routes
Post by: smudge on March 28, 2015, 12:39:13 PM

Oh! That's a bit of a surprise.  Hadn't it been tried eleventy-five times before and never seemed viable?

City centre-to-centre in a helicopter might appeal to executives in a rush but would they be bothered with airports for such a short hop?

Title: Re: New Routes
Post by: Angry Turnip on March 28, 2015, 02:10:57 PM

Yeah,it`s been tried many times and after some inital interest,it has become unsustainable,much like the BHD-DUB route.
Standard airport procedures of arriving approx 2 hrs prior to your flight etc have more or less rendered short routes like this not worth the hassle.