We got the new 701 Ballsbridge Aircoach from the airport at 15.45 yesterday. The timetable stated that it would take 40 minutes to Drumcondra but we were there at 16.00 and reached Ballsbridge Clayton Hotel at 16.20 not 17.11 as per the timetable. I was able to get a bus to Blackrock immediately and was home before the scheduled time in Ballsbridge. If someone was to meet me off the bus I would have been waiting a long time! In July when going to the airport to meet a friend the bus sailed past me with "Driver in Training" on it and after waiting another 20 minutes and no bus, I got another bus into town and another out, so was late meeting my friend. The new 702 amalgamated Greystones and Killiney route going through Sandymount and not stopping is a waste of income to the company - previously when the bus used that route people living in the area could avail of it. It is a long walk up to get the Ballsbridge 701 when the 702 passes near to Sandymount residents. It should stop on the coast road, it is too long of a gap before the Point from the Merrion Road. I will be meeting another friend at the airport this week as I could not rely on the arrival time of the Aircoach as per the timetable. The Aircoach to the airport last week arrived at 5.05 a.m. scheduled for 5.16 at Frascati Blackrock, but luckily I was at the stop at 5.00 a.m. so instead of arriving at 5.50 a.m. it arrived at 5.40 a.m. at the airport. The old Aircoach timetable was usually accurate and sometimes a little late, but you did not miss the bus by it arriving 11 minutes early and the 702 route now only running once an hour.