Times Square … time for New York flights via Bristol Airport

Bristol Airport is gearing up to welcome a new Aer Lingus service to Dublin, which offers handy connections to four major American cities.

Following the loss of the Continental Airlines’ New York route last year, Bristol is hoping the Aer Lingus flights, which will link Dublin to New York, Boston, Chicago and Orlando, will put it firmly back on the US map.

From 27 March, the flights will take off three times a day Monday to Friday and Sunday and two flights on Saturdays. Travellers bound for New York will be able to clear US Customs in Dublin’s new airport terminal, so they can arrive at New York as domestic passengers. Unlike the Continental route, these new flights arrive at JFK Airport, catapulting you straight into the heart of the city.

On the Boston and Big Apple routes, connection times in Dublin can be as little as an hour, giving you far more time to get a super-sized bite of your American adventure.

A Bristol Airport spokesman said that the new routes would help to further increase transatlantic traffic at the airport, alongside new easyJet routes to Amsterdam and Paris and KLM’s addition of a fourth daily flight to Amsterdam.

Bristol bucked the trend of falling passenger numbers in 2010. It was one of only two airports in the country to report rising numbers; 1.8 per cent more passenger traffic passed through the airport compared to 2009.

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