DENVER (KDVR) — A new nonstop intercontinental flight is coming to Denver International Airport in 2024.
Thursday, the nation’s third-busiest airport and the world’s seventh-busiest airport has additional a new nonstop flight to its program.
Aer Lingus is the countrywide airline of Eire and was started in 1936. Just about every aircraft is adorned with a shamrock and will take vacationers throughout Europe and the North Atlantic.
Now, the global airline is including a new nonstop route to Denver. The airline manufactured the announcement on its Twitter web page. Commencing on Might 17, 2024, passengers can fly instantly from the Mile High City to Dublin, Ireland.
Aer Lingus will be the 24th airline to provide DIA, in accordance to the airport.
The airline will be flying 4 periods a 7 days on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, creating worldwide travel into Europe a minor smoother with less connecting flights.
Flights will depart from Denver at 8:45 p.m. and get there in Dublin at 12:30 p.m. the future working day. Returning flights from Dublin will depart at 4:15 p.m. and get there in Denver at 7 p.m.
“With Dublin’s geographic placement as the gateway to Europe, pre-clearance facilities at the airport and the solid, long-proven Irish American ties, Aer Lingus is ideally placed to connect people and areas throughout the Atlantic,” Aer Lingus Chief Government, Lynne Embleton explained.
Just before Aer Lingus, vacationers headed to Ireland had to make at minimum 1 connecting prevent somewhere in the U.S. Journey time could be up to 15 hrs with a layover. Now, a nonstop flight from Denver to Eire would get fewer than 10 several hours.
The airline also introduced that it will be launching nonstop provider concerning Minneapolis-St. Paul to Dublin, as very well.
A new airline could raise travel at DIA, which is currently going through record-significant visitors.
FOX31’s Facts Desk looked into new figures, and DIA is busier than at any time. Over-all passenger visitors in the initial 50 % of 2023 reached an all-time higher of more than 36.5 million travellers, 13.6% up from the prior calendar year and 11.8% earlier mentioned the initial half of 2019.
Tourists are returning to their worldwide places, as very well. There were being a lot more worldwide travellers through DIA in the to start with half of 2023 than at any time prior to. This is a superior indication for Aer Lingus as they start out their partnership with Denver.