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.
Originally Posted by EI-BUD
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'