Aer Lingus is making every Irish person’s wish come true, by planning a direct service from Dublin to Las Vegas next winter.
The airline also hopes that this move will make Dublin Airport a transatlantic hub to lure passengers to Ireland from the UK and Europe.
The Irish airline is initially planning it as a seasonal service, but chief executive of Aer Lingus Stephen Kavanagh said it could be extended, depending on how well it performs.
“We are working to build a business case to operate a seasonal service to Las Vegas.”
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The chief executive of Aer Lingus told the Irish Independent, “We need to find a balance to the peak summer months, where the US consumer is the main source of traffic and where Ireland is the destination.
“We think there’s demand there. We can see from our own traffic data that for the Irish consumer Las Vegas is very attractive.
“We think there’s an opportunity around Las Vegas. Whether it’s year-round or just tactically in the winter months, that’s what we’re looking at.”
