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DUBLIN AIRPORT IS expecting a record summer for passengers, after announcing 14 new routes serving destinations in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.
You’ll now be able to fly direct from Dublin to destinations such as Hong Kong, Beijing and Montreal, as an extra 1.7 million people are expected to pass through the airport this year.
Four new airlines are coming to Dublin – Cathay Pacific, Croatia Airlines, Hainan Airlines and Icelandair.
Here is the list of new routes:
Almost all of these routes will be operating by June, with the exception of the last three listed which will be running by October.
At its peak during the summer months, 10 airlines will fly 446 flights a week to and from 16 destinations in the US, and four in Canada. The number of seats on North American flights is up 14% on last year, Dublin Airport said, with an extra 391,000.
The trends are also upwards on European routes, with an extra one million seats allocated this summer.
In the first three months of this year, more than six million passengers travelled through Dublin Airport, an increase of 4% on the previous year.
The airport’s managing director Vincent Harrison said that it continues to work with existing and new airlines to provide more choice for consumers.
I sat the leaving cert in 2004. Science in UCD was 290, now it’s 500. Such a difference.
Just looking at those points, I’m still surprised that some Software courses are not that high. Computer Science in UL is 325?
Computer Science in UCC is 340, now third lowest points. Above Arts and International development and food policy. In ’09 CS was 300.
aine hyland claims that the raise in entry points for maths based courses will lead to a falling off in the failure rate on those courses (as students had previously found them too difficult)
you get 25 extra for higher maths. the course requirement goes up by 25. so, you will obviously be far more able for the maths. 25 points extra and the resultant rise in entry requirements hve magically improved students ability to do maths?!!! irish solution etc
Is it 25 bonus points for higher level maths no matter what result you get? Or is it 25 bonus points for an A1 and then dropping by five points each grade after that? That’s what it used to be in UL right?
25 points for anyone who passes (so a D3)…
Seriously? With project maths? Are they having a laugh. They’re all going to fail first year if the course has a maths module that’s even remotely difficult. The engineering courses are going to see huge fail rates.
Well the individual courses should really have a maths requirement to get into them if they are mathematically focused. That would prevent those that arent’ capable from taking them up.
They do. But it’s no good if the maths course isn’t up to scratch. It’s wildly underestimating the students. It’s patronising and insulting and it’s a cheap copout to avoid hiring and training better maths teachers for secondary schools.
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