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CANADA’S NATIONAL AIRLINE is to operate a direct flight from Dublin to Vancouver next summer and they’ve a special offer to kick-off the new route.
The 10-hour journey from Dublin will see Ireland linked directly with Canada’s west coast on Air Canada’s subsidiary Air Canada Rouge.
Vancouver is one of the most frequent homes for Irish emigrants who’ve settled in Canada in recent years, so the new service is likely to prove popular.
The new route will see three flights a week (on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) between the two cities from 10 June 2016 and the service will run for the duration of the summer.
To promote the new service, Air Canada are offering a return flight offer of just under €600 return for passengers who travel between 10-30 June. The airline says that this offer is only for customers who book between now and 4 December.
A check of the Air Canada website showed flights between the two cities at as as low at €490 return during the period.
As well as being convenient for Irish people wishing to visit Canada, the airline’s president says that it will also provide a tourist boost for Ireland.
“This route is a great, convenient option for western Canadians travelling to visit the vibrant Emerald Isle with its rich literary history, arts, world-class golf and dramatic landscapes,” Benjamin Smith said today announcing the route.
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Would it be possible for signs to be erected on Irish roads telling idiot drivers to stop at the red lights
stop? why?
A road sign to tell people to look up from there phones. I can see no problem here at all.
I hope we don’t follow ..
If you can’t pay attention, let natural selection take place..
Put the signs on the footpaths.
instead of on the ground saying LOOK LEFT or LOOK RIGHT isy should just say LOOK UP(from your phone)
She doesn’t look Korean to me
South Korea lets in foreigners.
Forget your signs.. Just do what Dublin has done. Flood the streets with jun*ies & pick pockets who only love to sneak up and whip your phone from your hand! Makes me look up more often!
Nobody gets run over in the DPRK.
The sign company must be giving out more brown envelopes. We have way too many signs and councils keep adding to that number. Procurement officers are never fired for corrupts payments yet evidence is all over the country. Cycle lane signs and Bus lane signs on the Merrion Road are over the top. There are 482 road signs between Merrion gates and Blackrock. Booterstown to Blackrock is littered with signs and road markings. Somebody is getting a kickback.
Yet drivers are forever crashing into the Merrion gates. Maybe it’s an underpass they need.
Sure all they need is a visual Street quiz, “What Seoul Street is this?”. The recent Dublin one made me realise how often we don’t look up. The Journal could offer their services!
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