9 February 2019
By Elaine Murphy
elaine@TheCork.ie
Aircoach is investing €2.4 million in their Cork-Dublin route, with the imminent introduction of seven state of the art new vehicles, demonstrating the company’s strong commitment to Cork, providing a 24 hour, seven days a week, transport service between these two important urban centres and Dublin Airport. This announcement, which is on the back of sustained growth across the Aircoach business brings to over €4.5 million total investment in new vehicles in the past 12 months.
Pictured at the announcement at the Port of Cork is Eugene Brennan, coach driver with Aircoach, Dervla McKay, Managing Director of Aircoach and Cork singer-songwriter John Spillane.
The investment demonstrates the companys strong commitment to Cork with the introduction of seven new state of the art vehicles to the Cork-Dublin route.
Photo: Cathal Noonan
Pictured at the announcement at the Port of Cork is Cork singer-songwriter John Spillane with Dervla McKay, Managing Director of Aircoach.
Photo: Cathal Noonan
Founded in 1999 Aircoach employs 250 people across the island of Ireland and provides a range of high frequency, quality, great value scheduled coach services to and from Cork and Belfast cities to Dublin City Centre and Dublin Airport. It is the only bus company in Ireland providing 24-hour service across its routes, with over 2.6 million passenger journeys, covering 5.5 million miles in 2018.
This commitment from Aircoach to Cork is in addition to a substantial investment in technology leading to even more frequent departure times to their schedule as well as introducing online real-time coach tracker and contactless payments, making journeys even easier and hassle-free for customers.
Dervla McKay, Managing Director of Aircoach, commented “The Cork Dublin route is a very important one for us, connecting our two main cities and Dublin Airport, 24 hours a day. We are delighted to be able to invest in this route and it is a strong indicator of how our services are being utilised by a wide range of travellers from business people to students, leisure travellers to those travelling for one off events in Cork or Dublin. Investing in new coaches and technology has enabled us to grow over the last number of years, improve the customer experience and we are looking forward to introducing more innovations in 2019. “
Commenting on trends and the changing needs of passengers she added. “We cater for a wide mix of passengers, all with varying needs. Reliability of service and travelling in comfort at an affordable price are key deliverables, but the modern passenger also wants great WiFi and easy, flexible online booking and payment options.”.
The state-of-the-art vehicles will be introduced into the Cork-Dublin fleet from end of January. An adult single ticket costs from €10 when booked online. For more information on Aircoach and the Cork-Dublin route please visit www.aircoach.ie
