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Feb02Fri
Irish Airline To Launch Service In Philadelphia
By Mike Denardo, KYW Newsradio
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphians heading to the Emerald Isle will soon have more travel options, as Aer Lingus prepares to launch service here.
Irish airline Aer Lingus is adding Philadelphia to the 11 North American cities it serves, with four Philadelphia flights a week starting March 25th, and daily service starting May 18.
Aer Lingus CEO Stephen Kavanagh spoke this week at a discussion sponsored by the Irish American Business Chamber and Network.
“The Irish links to Philadelphia are well-known and renowned. And so there is a strong heritage and legacy. But there’s also strong business being conducted between Pennsylvania and Dublin,” he said.
He says there are 232 Irish businesses with employees in Pennsylvania. American Airlines already flies to Dublin and city commerce director Harold Epps says the competition should push down fares.
“It’s another way to access Europe for a lower fare. So business and tourists will have options,” said Epps.
Epps says the Aer Lingus flights should add millions to the local economy.
Jan31Wed
Aer Lingus CEO says new service at PHL Airport will be ‘transformational’ for airline
By Kenneth Hilario, Philadelphia Business Journal
Aer Lingus is set to launch flights out of Philadelphia International Airport this year. Service out of PHL is meaningful for the Irish carrier and its travelers, both leisure and business, thanks in part to efficiency and the proximity to downtown.
Ireland’s flag carrier airline Aer Lingus in October 2017 announced it would begin nonstop flights from the Philadelphia International Airport to Dublin Airport — service that will begin operating March 25 for four days of the week before adjusting to daily service on May 18.
Reservations have been strong, with over 10,000 guests having purchased tickets for summer travel “to Ireland and beyond,” Aer Lingus CEO Stephen Kavanagh said Tuesday at an event organized by the Irish American Business Chamber & Network.
Jan31Wed
Aer Lingus cleared for takeoff at Philadelphia airport
By Andrew Maykuth, Philly.com
Ireland’s Aer Lingus is set to launch nonstop service in March from Philadelphia to Dublin, and is positioning itself as a value airline providing connecting service to the United Kingdom, Europe, and Abu Dhabi.
“We want to be the leading value carrier across the North Atlantic,” chief executive Stephen Kavanagh told a packed audience of the Irish American Business Chamber and Network at the Pyramid Club on Tuesday.
Kavanagh cited the large number of Irish Americans in the region as an impetus for making Philadelphia its 12th destination in North America. Irish companies also have more than 232 offices or facilities in Pennsylvania, he said, and Aer Lingus is courting them with offers of corporate deals.
Jan29Mon
Almac Group Appoints Dr Stefan Mix as Head of Biocatalysis
Craigavon, N.I., 29 January 2018 – Almac Group, the global contract development and manufacturing organisation, has announced the appointment of Dr Stefan Mix to the position of Head of Biocatalysis, effective from 2 January 2018.
Stefan joined the Almac Sciences business in April 2005 as a chemist working in the lab on process development projects for chiral materials and has been part of the biocatalysis team since its beginnings. He has gained broad industrial experience including applications of biocatalysis, crystallisation development, process development for chiral building blocks and APIs, and technology transfer to manufacturing network partners, and was promoted to Biocatalysis Team Leader in 2012. All this time he has played a significant role in the development of Almac Sciences’ Biocatalysis Technology platform which has seen rapid growth and has multiple applications across a range of project scales and industry sectors.
