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Six Nations tournament: all Blues supporters will be able to land in Dublin for Ireland-France

2023-02-08T19:08:43.454Z


Dublin airport, which had until then refused to take delivery of additional flights chartered for the Ireland-France shock, concerning th


There will be no disappointments.

The good news fell three days before the shock of the Tournament between Ireland and France, Saturday (3:15 p.m.), the second lifting of the competition for the Blues after their victory in Italy on Sunday (24-29).

All tricolor supporters who have obtained tickets will finally be able to make the trip and attend the meeting.

The ten flights, out of the thirty chartered from France, which had previously been refused due to a lack of staff at the airport in the Irish capital, were accepted on Wednesday evening.

The 1,500 supporters who were beginning to resign themselves to seeing the match on television can therefore pack their bags.

Grégory Sevault, the CEO of the travel agency MyComm which organizes the movement of these supporters, won his case.

Airport services, impacted by social movements, have been resized to accommodate everyone.

The situation, grotesque, was beginning to become urgent.

“The airport told us that it was unable to receive some of our supporter planes, explained Grégory Sevault, Monday, in our columns.

He invokes a lack of staff in

handling

, the sector supposed to take care of travelers from the gateway that connects the plane to the terminal, but also the management of their luggage.

However, it has been several months since the airlines granted us these landing slots

(for the outward journey)

and take-off

(for the return).

But the airport doesn't want to know.

»

The airport authorities encouraged until Wednesday the travel agency to transport the supporters to Shannon or Cork, cities 2h30 by coach from Dublin.

A journey for a trip of three days and two nights.

Faced with increasingly insistent protests and media coverage of the case, a solution was therefore found in extremis.

The staff has been reinforced to welcome the supporters who will take off this Friday.

Source: leparis

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