Originally Posted by
Dysag
For many years Aer Lingus was regarded by the UK manufacturers as a subsidiary of the Boeing marketing department.
Can't have been that bad. Aer Lingus operated both sizes of Viscount, pioneer One-Elevens (which lasted in the fleet for 25 years), and then introduced a substantial fleet of BAe146s, which, like the Boeings, have only gone in the last few years in favour of an all-Airbus fleet. Dublin Airport, the old Terminal A, in the late 1990s was a veritable mass of EI 146s at peak departure times.