I was in Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport less than a year ago and it was a beautiful empty space. I was there again just a week ago and it was a thriving hub of people traveling from place to place. The dining areas were all very busy and there was a great atmosphere. The place is new, clean and friendly. I know Michael O Leary doesn’t like T2, but I think it was a good decision and this news from United Airlines is proof of that. In T1 you have to walk a mile just to get to the plane and there are definite signs of age in some parts despite the improvements.

Good news for Irish aviation.

Didn’t Aer Lingus previously operate that route? Maybe Aer Lingus are too quick to drop long-haul routes, Dubai is another example of a former Aer Lingus route operated by a foreign carrier.

Great news, more routes to US the better, just hope these routes can be sustained. Didn’t Aer Lingus reduce service on this route before? I agree that T2 is great….I turned up recently for a Aer Lingus flight due to depart from T2 and was directed out a long walkway which brought me back into T1… Thought that was bizarre!!!

The sad thing is that Aer Lingus did fly to Dulles but as usual with the poor management of the company they dropped the route only to see someone else pick it up and most likely be successfull with it. The same applied when they tried to operate 3 times a week into Dubai which the cancelled only to see Ethiad fly 10 times a week to Abu Dhabi and now Emirates are coming into Dublin. Likewise they cancelled their routes to the West coast of the U.S. and no doubt some carrier will pick up those routes in time for Aer Lingus management to look back and realise they made mistake there as well. Think of the jobs and revenue that could’ve been created both within the former state owned carrier and ancillary businesses if A.L. management could get their act together!!

and there is talks of Air China now too!

Just expect to be groped,radiated and fingerprinted when you land. In the land of the free.

Great to have this route option again!

Lol… Niall clearly never flies Transatlantic, you get groped, searched and irradiated prior to boarding for the USA when you fly from Dublin.

As someone’s who’s clocked 62.5k old continental miles I’m very happy with this news

It says united plane 150 passengers, that means an A321… But that’s a 3,390 mile flight and the max range on the A320s used domestically is 3,300 and neither united or continental has no orders for an A321 with an extended range. So I’m betting one of the new continental 737-900ERs configured with businessFirst seats.

Or they may go all out on it and fit it 3 class cabin. I doubt they would miss out on premium passengers using a misplaced domestic jet.

As for the west coast united has San Francisco and Los Angles hubs so it’s easy to see an expansion, cargo was the profit driver on the old Aer Lingus route to SFO they lost out on passengers because there just wasn’t enough and Rynair destroyed the business model of offering connections to Europe