An already massive yr for Pittsburgh Worldwide Airport (PIT) is ending on another excessive word.
The airport — recent off the opening of its gorgeous new $1.7 billion terminal — simply landed a coveted new path to Europe. That got here Thursday, when Irish service Aer Lingus mentioned it will start nonstop flights to its hub at Dublin Airport (DUB).
Flights on Airbus A321neo LR jets will start Might 25, 2026, with connections through Dublin accessible to greater than 30 of the service’s different European locations. Amongst these: 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 success in reworking itself right into a vibrant regional airport over the previous decade.
As soon as among the many busiest airports within the U.S. across the flip of the century, Pittsburgh’s passenger visitors plummeted as US Airways (which merged with American Airways) dropped the hub that was constructed to the airline’s specs.
However the airport has loved a renaissance beneath Christina Cassotis, who assumed PIT’s CEO function in 2015.
The airport centered on rebuilding flight schedules round native market demand — as a substitute of the connecting schedules that outlined its US Airways hub days. That’s included an effort to convey again among the high-profile transatlantic routes that town loved throughout its hub heyday.
Aer Lingus’ new Pittsburgh-Dublin route
Aer Lingus will give Pittsburgh its first-ever service to Dublin.
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It can even be town’s third present transatlantic route (alongside London and Reykjavik).
“We’re thrilled to have a accomplice in Aer Lingus that may serve Pittsburgh’s rising marketplace for nonstop service to Eire and past, and we sit up for welcoming much more European vacationers to Pittsburgh,” PIT CEO Cassotis mentioned in a assertion asserting the brand new Dublin flights.
As for Aer Lingus, the addition of Pittsburgh comes amid a broader six-route enlargement that additionally included 5 intra-Europe routes from Eire.
The service’s new Pittsburgh schedule will see Aer Lingus fly the route 4 occasions every week, working one spherical journey every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The service will function year-round, apart from “a quick 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. Frequent flyers may redeem rewards on Aer Lingus, which makes use of the identical Avios award forex as a myriad of different carriers in Europe and elsewhere.
Reserving Aer Lingus with factors and miles
Frequent flyers hoping to make use of factors and miles to fly Aer Lingus have quite a few choices.
Vacationers can switch American Specific Membership Rewards factors, Chase Final Rewards factors and Bilt Rewards Factors on to Aer Lingus AerClub.
Additionally vital to notice: The airline shares the identical Avios award forex as British Airways, Iberia, Qatar Airways and Finnair (and others). If in case you have Avios with any of these airways, there’s a brand new instrument that may aid you switch Avios on to Aer Lingus.
To that very same finish: Capital One cardholders can switch miles to British Airways Membership, after which transfer these Avios over to Aer Lingus.
Citi ThankYou Rewards members can do the identical through Qatar.
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