Aer Lingus - 6

[EI-A330-300]

New DUB routes schedules:

DUB-ARN
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
DUB 07.40-ARN 11.15
ARN 11.55-DUB 13.35
Sundays
DUB 14.10-ARN 17.45
ARN 18.25-DUB 20.05

DUB-VRN
Wednesday
DUB 15.50-VRN 19.20
VRN 20.00-DUB 21.40
Saturday
DUB 12.10-VRN 15.40
VRN 16.20-DUB 18.00

All A320

ARN starts 25 March and VRN starts 28 March.

[j636]

Aer Lingus looks forward to summer 2012 with new routes and increased frequencies | SourceWire

with more announcements to follow later this month. We look forward to welcoming our customers on board in summer 2012."

Intresting times ahead...

[AIRPORT66]

airport66

And Belfast gets nothing just same bucket spade routes.

[EI-A330-300]

Aer Lingus have tried Amsterdam, Rome (being dropped), Milan, Paris and I think Budapest. Only so much an airline can do. With the base dropping to 2 A319 and 1 A320 does that not tell people anything....Sun routes can't even sustain a A320 and only reason a A320 is staying for LPA, ACE, TFS which EI would do with a A319 if they could.

[Shamrock350]

Aer Lingus also gave Munich and Geneva a try from BFS and they were dropped, those routes just don't work from BFS with Aer Lingus. Even sun routes and UK regional routes far outweigh anything else on offer from Easyjet so the market just isn't there for much else.

Bucket and spade routes might be boring but they make money.

[EI-BUD]

And Belfast gets nothing just same bucket spade routes.

To be fair to EI-330 says Aer Lingus has tried many different markets some that were just too ambitious, I feel that AMS would have worked if there was an interlining with KLM. In any case looking at BFS and the approach of Jet2, who have many seasonal niche routes such as Dubrovnik, Toulouse, Pisa, Blackpool etc, they have started looking at the busy and arguably saturated sun routes such as Alicante as these are the routes where the demand exists. Plain and simply we have a limited market, 2 airports competing for quite a small prize and Dublin not far away to offer the range of destinations and often low fares from Ryanair and Aer Lingus too.

We are not getting a good share of inbound tourists on European routes, I fly frequently to Spain and I never see many if any Spaniards on the flights, but when I fly to/from Dublin there are many.

Obscure routes wont work with a large aircraft or without good inbound demand.


P.S add Geneva and Munich to that list of routes closed!

Aer Lingus have tried Amsterdam, Rome (being dropped), Milan, Paris and I think Budapest. Only so much an airline can do. With the base dropping to 2 A319 and 1 A320 does that not tell people anything....Sun routes can't even sustain a A320 and only reason a A320 is staying for LPA, ACE, TFS which EI would do with a A319 if they could.

I think A320 is sustainable on Sun routes for EI, the problem is the seasonality of the markets and with a 319 on in winter greater chance of some profit, or more than currently achieving. I think the 319 will be a nice little experiment for EI. Nice to see this winter that routes like ALC are doing surprisingly well I was on 3 weeks ago and there was 120 on the flight back which is good for November!

EI-BUD

[Sober Lark]

Aer Lingus new translucent promise to their customers.

"In order to provide complete transparency to our customers regarding how we charge for our flights, all prices displayed include taxes and charges"

Should read '...complete transparency*.."

*excludes our obligatory €6 handling fee per person per flight.

[Shamrock350]

Aer Lingus can still exclude the handling fee from the full fare as its still just about avoidable with a Visa Electron card. These aren't issued anymore so Aer Lingus will have to come up with another alternative soon or better yet, just do away with card fees!

[ayroplain]

Was passing through DUB Wed. morning about 10.30am and noticed five (5) EI A320's/321? parked remotely near fire station plus 1 x Regional ATR. Two more A320's were "silent" at Pier A. Seems a lot of a/c to be idle at that hour of the day. Was this exceptional or have they "parked" a/c for the winter? (2 x FR738's also parked remote so assume these are 2 of the 80 on the ground).

[fivejuliet]

Ryanair does not really "park" aircraft for the winter. Aircraft will not be utilised to the max throughout the day, longer layovers etc.

What you saw could well be some of the latest withdrawals from the fleet either.

[boyzinblue]

Does anyone know why cork-berlin is on the route map? Is the route returning?

[Jamie2k9]

Was never taken off the map when it was dropped.

[mart901]

Happy Christmas from Aer Lingus - YouTube

[EI-A330-300]

Premium Economy should be announced soon on Long Haul flights. One row in Ecomny will be removed to give Premium Economy seats with 4''-5'' extra leg room.

[Noxegon]

That's great news.

[Aisle2c]

I hope to take the family to the US for a holiday in late June/early July, does anyone know if there will be a seat sale (for that period) in the the coming weeks or will there be no seat sale for what is the high season ?

[EI-A330-300]

There most lightly will be a sale of some sort but US fares tend not to change a huge amount.

[Aisle2c]

Thanks, any idea of when that sale is likely to be ?

As they say, every little helps !

[EI-A330-300]

late Jan or month of Feb.

[airbourne]

PE would sit well in the 330-300 with the mini cabin rows 9-11, take out 1 row and there you go.