AerDart announced today that the AerDart A1 service is to be suspended and services will stop running on Sunday March 20. Nine jobs will be lost with the suspension.
AerDart started their high frequency shuttle bus service, which connected Dublin Airport to Dublin's DART and the eastern and national rail network, in April 2001.
The company said the decision to suspend the service was taken as a result of falling passenger numbers and mounting losses which were caused by the weekend closures of the DART line due to upgrade work.
The company said that with the projected date of the reopening of the DART line now pushed back to September, there is now no possibility that the service will be viable in the foreseeable future.
'DART upgrade works have seriously impacted on the operation of the AerDart service and losses can not be sustained any further,' commented Allen Parker, Managing Director of AerDart.
AerDart is owned by the ComfortDelGro Group, which also operates the CityLink coach service from Dublin to Galway and from Galway to Shannon.
