An already large 12 months for Pittsburgh World Airport (PIT) is finishing on yet one more excessive be aware.
The airport — recent off the hole of its surprising new $1.7 billion terminal — simply landed a coveted new path to Europe. That got here Thursday, when Irish provider Aer Lingus mentioned it could start nonstop flights to its hub at Dublin Airport (DUB).
Flights on Airbus A321neo LR jets will start Might 25, 2026, with connections by means of Dublin to be had to greater than 30 of the provider’s different Ecu locations. Amongst the ones: Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Berlin, Venice and Manchester in England.
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The Dublin flights are a win for an airport that has discovered luck in remodeling itself into a colourful regional airport during the last decade.
As soon as a number of the busiest airports within the U.S. across the flip of the century, Pittsburgh’s passenger visitors plummeted as US Airlines (which merged with American Airways) dropped the hub that used to be constructed to the airline’s specs.
However the airport has loved a renaissance below Christina Cassotis, who assumed PIT’s CEO position in 2015.
The airport eager about rebuilding flight schedules round native marketplace call for — as a substitute of the connecting schedules that outlined its US Airlines hub days. That’s integrated an effort to carry again one of the high-profile transatlantic routes that the town loved all the way through its hub heyday.
Aer Lingus’ new Pittsburgh-Dublin direction
Aer Lingus will give Pittsburgh its first-ever provider to Dublin.
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It is going to even be the town’s 3rd present transatlantic direction (along London and Reykjavik).
“We’re delighted to have a spouse in Aer Lingus that may serve Pittsburgh’s rising marketplace for nonstop provider to Eire and past, and we look ahead to welcoming much more Ecu vacationers to Pittsburgh,” PIT CEO Cassotis mentioned in a commentary pronouncing the brand new Dublin flights.
As for Aer Lingus, the addition of Pittsburgh comes amid a broader six-route enlargement that still integrated 5 intra-Europe routes from Eire.
The provider’s new Pittsburgh agenda will see Aer Lingus fly the direction 4 occasions per week, running one around shuttle each and every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The provider will function year-round, aside from for “a short lived pause in January and February.”
Flight occasions are:
- Departs Pittsburgh at 8:40 p.m., arrives in Dublin at 8:40 a.m.
- Departs Dublin at 4:10 p.m., arrives in Pittsburgh at 7:10 p.m.
Tickets at the moment are on sale. Common flyers too can redeem rewards on Aer Lingus, which makes use of the similar Avios award forex as a myriad of different carriers in Europe and in other places.
Reserving Aer Lingus with issues and miles
Common flyers hoping to make use of issues and miles to fly Aer Lingus have a large number of choices.
Vacationers can switch American Categorical Club Rewards issues, Chase Final Rewards issues and Bilt Rewards Issues immediately to Aer Lingus AerClub.
Additionally essential to notice: The airline stocks the similar Avios award forex as British Airlines, Iberia, Qatar Airlines and Finnair (and others). You probably have Avios with any of the ones airways, there’s a brand new device that can assist you switch Avios immediately to Aer Lingus.
To that very same finish: Capital One cardholders can switch miles to British Airlines Membership, after which transfer the ones Avios over to Aer Lingus.
Citi ThankYou Rewards contributors can do the similar by means of Qatar.
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