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I'm hearing a rumour of a DUB-YHZ (Halifax Stanfield Intl) on an A321/A320 in response to the new WestJet service from St. John's. Is this true? Has anyone else heard anything?
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I'm hearing a rumour of a DUB-YHZ (Halifax Stanfield Intl) on an A321/A320 in response to the new WestJet service from St. John's. Is this true? Has anyone else heard anything?
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I'm hearing a rumour of a DUB-YHZ (Halifax Stanfield Intl) on an A321/A320 in response to the new WestJet service from St. John's. Is this true? Has anyone else heard anything?
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EI S14
Well after a problematic S13 EI have the crew , cockpit and cc so now they need the aircraft for the peak,
Lots effort on going seeking aircraft, exhausting effort for sure but watch this space ,
Lots effort on going seeking aircraft, exhausting effort for sure but watch this space ,
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Maybe Titan is the way to go again but on a better schedule etc. Note from there Q3 results capacity was up 2.9% but costs only 0.4%.
Would it of being different if they had all crew available on there own aircraft and Titan didn't come in?
Would it of being different if they had all crew available on there own aircraft and Titan didn't come in?
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Hi everyone, I understand EI-LAX has now left on its Novair lease, I'm wondering what routes she will be operating and will she still be operating under the Aer Lingus AOC?
Regards,
Jack
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Jack
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Well, Jack, we will hardly be seeing her in Cork, anyway! We cannot even hang on to an A321 for very long either! An A321 sitting on it's backside for hours and days on end at Cork over the last seven or eight weeks when it could have been doing far more flying - trying out some new routes on Fridays and Sundays on weekend break type destinations.
Nah, that would be too hard for the crowd in Aer Lingus. Cork? Cork, where the heck is that? Not to mention it being too hard for the brains in the CAA!
Far better for potential Cork Airport pax to take the midnight busses to Dublin HQ - easier to run Cork into the ground that way!
Nah, that would be too hard for the crowd in Aer Lingus. Cork? Cork, where the heck is that? Not to mention it being too hard for the brains in the CAA!
Far better for potential Cork Airport pax to take the midnight busses to Dublin HQ - easier to run Cork into the ground that way!
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Well, Jack, we will hardly be seeing her in Cork, anyway! We cannot even hang on to an A321 for very long either! An A321 sitting on it's backside for hours and days on end at Cork over the last seven or eight weeks when it could have been doing far more flying - trying out some new routes on Fridays and Sundays on weekend break type destinations.
Nah, that would be too hard for the crowd in Aer Lingus. Cork? Cork, where the heck is that? Not to mention it being too hard for the brains in the CAA!
Far better for potential Cork Airport pax to take the midnight busses to Dublin HQ - easier to run Cork into the ground that way!
Nah, that would be too hard for the crowd in Aer Lingus. Cork? Cork, where the heck is that? Not to mention it being too hard for the brains in the CAA!
Far better for potential Cork Airport pax to take the midnight busses to Dublin HQ - easier to run Cork into the ground that way!
. Yeah was pretty desperate seeing that the A321 was scheduled to fly every day bar Saturdays and was flown basically weekly there for a while and sat on stand 20 the most of the time, Aer Lingus ops (unsurprisingly!) and rightly so decided where pax amount to less than 174 on flights an A320 would be used. Erin lies the problem, there ain't no demand for a 200+ aircraft on Cork-London/Heathrow in the Winter bar from the 19 Dec to the 06 Jan when it is most definitely needed and has also been scheduled to return to Cork. It was most definitely needed last Summer, however sending it on high demand Dublin routes is the logical choice, and by adding the 5th daily ORK-LHR rotation they have sorted that capacity shortfall for S14. I'd prefer to see them stabilize their portfolio of routes at Cork, only then will management at Aer Lingus consider growth and lets be frank the CAA have no balls to try budge that, would love to know what there 9 to 5 is like. 
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It's plain and simple. The people of Cork have voted with their feet ever since adam was a babe. They would rather fly into LHR to go just about anywhere than flying with the local carriers. Unfortunately you get what you sow. To expect AL to wear a loss and build up routes whilst the locals fly with everyone else ain't a runner.
Sometimes people can't see the wood from the trees. Rather than realising that competition was good for average fares you deserted Wizz in favour of FR. Then they pulled off not surprisingly when loads/yield softened and they realised they could make more money elsewhere on the network outside of Cork. Same happened with Aer Arran. Now you all give out about how you can't connect in off regional to Dublin to get to the US but have to drive to Dublin or more bizarrely fly east to LHR.
All routes have to be profitable from day 1 - that has been the management edict for the past 5 years. AL ain't a charity.
Sometimes people can't see the wood from the trees. Rather than realising that competition was good for average fares you deserted Wizz in favour of FR. Then they pulled off not surprisingly when loads/yield softened and they realised they could make more money elsewhere on the network outside of Cork. Same happened with Aer Arran. Now you all give out about how you can't connect in off regional to Dublin to get to the US but have to drive to Dublin or more bizarrely fly east to LHR.
All routes have to be profitable from day 1 - that has been the management edict for the past 5 years. AL ain't a charity.
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To be honest, there are some things that I don't understand in relation to EI's Winter program in Cork. In particular, there are whole blocks of time over Winter where there seems to be aircraft sitting on the ground doing nothing on some evenings. Given loads and yields on existing to Paris, and the fact that it shouldn't be too hard to get a slot there in the evening, it surprises me that they haven't tried it out; it would seem quite low risk.
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There could be a number of reasons they are not doing that! As stated EI are not a charity they have to operate a profitable business and im sure shareholders dont view taking risks and just trying things on a whim very highly! There may be other reasons too such as crew shortage or due maintenance or maybe EI need that a/c as a back up cancellations in the network maybe they anticipated a bad winter 
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According to the Air Transport World EI will be taken the A350-900 Regional. They will take all 9 and there whole long haul fleet will be A350. If the regional wasn't offered they wouldn't of taken 9 of the regular 900. Main differance is they are lighter weight and better suited to short-medium range routes.
Aer Lingus to take nine A350-900 regionals | Airframes content from ATWOnline
Aer Lingus to take nine A350-900 regionals | Airframes content from ATWOnline