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Old 26th Mar 2012, 13:01
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Used it for the first time last month LHR-SNN. Very handy and quick. Checked in online and chose my seat (on my iPhone) and within seconds was sent the QR barcode which worked perfectly at security and boarding. Same in reverse at SNN on way home. Advance technology!
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Old 30th Mar 2012, 20:25
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Not a good day fro Aer Lingus T/A ops yesterday. Two A330 had to be taken out of service because of a technical fault and the other was struck by a vechicle. As usual media making a big deal out of it. They claim that close to 200 were given Hotel accomadation in SNN as the aircraft was needed in Dublin, however its reported elsewhere that it was a lot less.
Does anyone know if much damage was caused to the aircraft and will they be leasing a 767 to cover if its not in service soon as it the summer season and all A330 are required.

Passengers stranded as aircraft used for other flight - The Irish Times - Fri, Mar 30, 2012
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Old 30th Mar 2012, 22:06
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Was it the 200 or 300 series that were involved in problems ? And I would hope the A330's would get fixed for the summer season it is still only march
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Old 1st Apr 2012, 17:35
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EI hired in a B767 the next day, (Friday) and the 185 stranded pax made it to BOS.

I was told that the aircraft that was hit by a vehicle was back in service the next day.
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Old 5th Apr 2012, 11:52
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March passengers were 809,000 up 8.2%

Short Haul 663,000 up 5.4%
Long Haul 73,000 up 15.3%
EI regional 73,000 up 30.4%

LF on Short Haul increased 3.4 to 72.6%
LF on Long Haul increased 8.2 to 80%

SH capacity up 1.1%
LH capacity up 4.0%
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Old 6th Apr 2012, 22:30
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how long to transfer to jet blue at jfk

Travelling to IAD on mon with EI via JFK. Wondering if the transfer to Jetblue flight takes long/is much hassle?

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Old 7th Apr 2012, 10:41
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transfer at JFK is no hassel at all, you will arrive into the B gates if you are travelling on the 105 or 111 where u collect ur bags head out and take a right into the transfer hall, there will be a lovely lady waiting on you there who will give u your boarding pass is you havent already got it at DUB and take ur bags, head upstairs and get the airtrain which goes on track 1 the right hand track and the next stop in T5 Jet Blue, and head in there for you connection, simple as. I only know cos i used to work there for EI. people fret about it but it is no hassel at all. if in doubt as the agent at the transfer hall and she will direct u to the airtrain
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Old 9th Apr 2012, 10:04
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EI Winter 12/13 BFS

Any idea when routes other than BFS-LHR might go on sale for this winter? Most routes from ORK are on sale.

Interestingly BFS-LHR is showing as being back to an A320 when it is an A319 for this summer.
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Old 9th Apr 2012, 11:35
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Bfs Lhr is 320 this summer...!

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Old 9th Apr 2012, 12:04
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EI-BUD, BFS-LHR will rotate between the A319 and A320 during the summer

mn06, in winter it will probably be back down to 2 based aircraft, my guess is the A320 will stay on LHR as its a good all year round route, while the A319 will do the sun routes which thin out during the winter season
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What will most lightly happen is the base will be a 320 and 319. 320 will do a morning LHR flight and then in the afternoon it will operate ACE, TFS etc. With Rome gone what will fill the gap. New Route?
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Maybe an extra rotation to LHR? We don't know what BA will do to BHD
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yes tigger, but in the main BFS LHR is by A320.

The winter timetable has not been clarified, I think a lot depends on next steps of BA re LHR Belfast route. I woud watch this space.

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Would argee EI-BUD as it does very much depend and any major changes with BA and the EI codeshare will see the end of EI at BFS. There are only there for LHR and the bucket and spade routes are a bonas but this year they have more compitation than every and with less people travling. I think the next few months will tell a lot about the base at BFS...
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EI-A330-300;

I think AerLingus is very committed to the base. The introduction of the 2 319's is step change from A320 and a sign that Aer Lingus want to make the base work.

The relationship with BA is very important for both EI and BA, and I cannot see anything changing that. The numbers that EI feed into BA LHR hubs are impressive and cannot see BA doing anything to harm that. BA if it does continue on BHD LHR will be no more a threat than bmi were, as cannot see the frequency being as higher or higher than BA, my guess would be tops 4 a day.

Yes there is competition more than ever on Euro routes, but we will watch how that pans out, EI have their followers and bmibaby's future is less than certain so there is still everything to play for.

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The amount of connecting traffic on Aer Lingus' DUB-LHR route is completely overstated on this and other forums. The vast, vast majority of traffic on the route is point-to-point. So should BA decide to operate the route using their own metal, just offering long-haul connections through LHR isn't enough, they'll have to compete for O&D traffic as well, which they won't be able to as Aer Lingus has a much lower cost base than BA and as such can offer lower fares, and arguably has a better suited product for the route.

As for the BFS-LHR route, this would have a much higher proportion of connecting traffic so obviously the code share is more important, but you'll find a lot of carriers are now adopting a 'metal neutral' policy, whereby they focus more on offering the best timed flight for the customer than feeding passengers into one particular hub or onto one particular airline. So under a 'metal neutral' policy, BA isn't going to force all its passengers to travel from BHD because it owns BMI, it'll also offer flights on Aer Lingus from BFS if that offers a better connection (assuming BA maintains bilateral relations with Aer Lingus).

So this idea that because BA have bought BMI, they're going to abandon their code share with Aer Lingus and force everything through BHD is nonsense. BA would effectively be abandoning the whole island of Ireland, because Aer Lingus would inevitably retaliate by abandoning the code share on its other LHR routes and transfer frequency to other hubs such as FRA, AMS, and CDG which would be bad for BA, who didn't just spend €210 million buying BMI only to use dozens of LHR slots on routes to Ireland using its own aircraft that it doesn't have...
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Does anyone know if Aer Lingus ever looked at code sharing with IB to Madrid? I would have thought that it would have made sense with the relationship and apparant success they have with IAG through BA?
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The amount of connecting traffic on Aer Lingus' DUB-LHR route is completely
overstated on this and other forums
dublinaviator, do you know the figures?. the last figures that I heard quoted were in a business journal a few years ago and from memory it stated that EI were feeding 120k pax per year into BA's network at LHR from DUB/ORK & SNN.

No doubt Emirates, Etihad and Istanbul airlines increased activity at Dublin will have a knock on effect to EI DUB LHR interlining passengers.

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Originally Posted by VanBosh
Does anyone know if Aer Lingus ever looked at code sharing with IB to Madrid? I would have thought that it would have made sense with the relationship and apparant success they have with IAG through BA?
Its probably because of Aer Lingus' Joint Venture with United between Madrid and Washington, which competed directly with Iberia. Aer Lingus also had a code share agreement with Spanair before they went bust.

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dublinaviator, do you know the figures?. the last figures that I heard quoted were in a business journal a few years ago and from memory it stated that EI were feeding 120k pax per year into BA's network at LHR from DUB/ORK & SNN.
According to an article featured in FlyingInIreland magazine in 2010:

"Aer Lingus has very good partnerships at present with a number of carriers. Connecting code-share with British Airways between Dublin, Cork, Belfast and London serving traffic flows to Middle/Far East, Australia, New Zealand and Africa, which delivered in excess of 150,000 sectors in 2009."

Mueller aims to make Aer Lingus Ireland's 'civilised airline'

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There are a bit over 3 million passengers from Ireland, North and South, to Heathrow every year. While BMI are probably responsible for something in the region of a million of them, that still eaves around 2 million for Aer Lingus.

In this context 150K sectors isn't that much at all.

And the proportion of connecting passengers is likely to be lower on DUB-LHR than the other routes considering Dublin has connections to many hubs (Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, New York, Dubai) that are scarcely there at the other Irish airports.
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