US Airways launches new route from Dublin

US Airways is to launch a new route from Dublin to Charlotte, North Carolina next May, the first announced new service to operate from Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2.

The new daily service, which was unveiled at the Annual Routes Conference in Vancouver, is projected to carry up to 50,000 passengers between Dublin and Charlotte during the summer of 2011.

It will bring to eight the number of US airports directly served by scheduled flights from Dublin Airport.