Aer Lingus - 6

[Charlie Roy]

Aer Lingus' Heathrow slots

It's believed that BA may have another pair belonging to EI and there's another pair leased to another carrier

Indeed, it's a shame there is no clear list online of all Aer Lingus' slots at Heathrow: owned, leased to others, leased from others.

[Mlinnie]

Agadir

Just wondering how well does Dublin-Agadir perform ? And why is it only operational during the winter ? I mean it's seems more of a sun destination. I think it should be operational summer only because it's bound to get higher loads (I mean during winter, sun seekers would go to Spain or Portugal but never Morocco) it's bound to do better during the summer

[840]

I'd expect Morocco to be a better Winter destination than Spain. Places like Barcelona or even Alicante can get pretty cold in the Winter, but you'd be unlucky if Morocco got all that cold.

[Jack1985]

Just wondering how well does Dublin-Agadir perform ? And why is it only operational during the winter ? I mean it's seems more of a sun destination. I think it should be operational summer only because it's bound to get higher loads (I mean during winter, sun seekers would go to Spain or Portugal but never Morocco) it's bound to do better during the summer

Incorrect. Morocco is much like the Canaries with year round sun, so why would Aer Lingus operate a service to Morocco in the Summer when they can operate much more lucrative summer routes? LF's must be good on the route its been operating for a few years now during the winter.

[flyer55]

Have flown Aerlingus a few times from LGW and wondered if they were planning any new routes from lgw ??

[CabinCrewe]

Think LHR will see any EI UK action rather than developments at LGW

[j636]

Did an Aer Lingus flight return to DUB this evening around 18.15, was waiting for an EI flight to LHR and I am almost certain that the aircraft that departed to VNO from the next gate returned minutes lather and passengers were taken back to the gate. Anyone know anything, runway was closed for a few minutes but there was no emergency services on standby.

[DublinPole]

That VNO flight departed DUB at 18.17 and landed in Dublin at 18.50 before departing Dublin again at 19.51. No idea if there was a plane change.

[Airbus321-200]

The VNO flight had a birdstrike on departure off 28. Returned about 25 mins later. The a/c was EI-DEK. VNO was swapped onto an A321.

[Jamie2k9]

Agadir

The route was actualy dropped by Aer Lingus in October 2011 but sunway could not get a charter carrier to operate so they got EI to operate it and they buy seats and flights resumed in December. It had being 2 weekly until 2009 but was reduced to 1 weekly.

[PPRuNeUser0176]

Incident: Aer Lingus A320 at Dublin on May 12th 2012, bird strike

According to this it returned 12 mins after departure. The time quoted on Aer Lingus site is when it returned to gate.

[Just a spotter]

The ATC stream around the possible bird strike is available on the LiveATC.net archive for the day. All sounds very calm and professional from everyone involved (not that you'd expect anything other than that).

JAS

[kasuga]

rumour doing the rounds at BHX is that EI regional (Aer Arran) may take over the daily Dub/Bhx schedules from the mainline A320 soon ?? , anyone else hear anything ?

[840]

I'd be a small bit surprised.

Where the ATR wins out is where it can support several daily services when the A320 would only have one. So, it's an ideal fit for ORK-BHX, but for DUB-BHX, where there are already 3 A320 flights, it would only make sense if someone had identified a market for 6+ flights a day.

There's also the question of where Aer Arann could find a suitable aircraft to dedicate to that level of service.

[PPRuNeUser0176]

Aer lingus have interduced Price Lock on selected routes.

[Tom the Tenor]

What's a price lock?! Thanks.

[PPRuNeUser0176]

From EI website:

Aer Lingus Price Lock service allows you to hold your itinerary and fare for 24hours, for a fee. Book your flight while you complete and confirm your travel plans. Our Price Lock service will guarantee an available seat and the fare you were quoted at the time you made your booking.

Look up DUB-ACE in July and further details are there.

[muccail]

Cork Munich Winter 2012/13

Why has the Cork Munich flights not been released for Winter 2012/13?

[Mlinnie]

Aer Lingus

I think it's because Aer Lingus hasnt released their winter schedule yet, its the same with Waterford & Belfast hardly any of the routes out of there are shown, when will the winter schedule be released ?

[ryan2000]

They've an early bird sale from Cork valid until 13th December. Yet most of the winter routes haven't been loaded, it'd be great if they give us an extra City Break destination instead of the usual Sun Routes.