Aer Lingus to LAX

datk

Anyone flown with Aer Lingus to Los Angeles? What are the planes like - do you have your own screen - with such a long flight - and me not being too fond of flying I could do with all the distractions I can get!!! I could go through London and go with Virgin and BA but if I can go direct from Dublin with the same distractions that would be better.

Thanks in advance

rossie1977

some of the planes that fly to LAX from Dublin do have their own screens, when i have flown aer lingus to LAX we only had the TV in the aisle :mad:

the flight (roughly 11 hours) is long enough without going through London which will add another approx 4 hours to your flight. I would stick with Aer Lingus and bring an ipod or one of those portable dvd players to pass the time. Personally i never find the USA west coast flights that bad and i have done them at least 6 times now

janney5

I had one of the new planes with screens in the back of the seats when I flew over and back during the summer. They're the newest addition the the Aer Lingus fleet afaik, very comfortable flying experience. The little personal media centre is great though, plenty of new movies, a few episodes from numerous popular series, plenty of music and and endless list of games!

I'd say it's more likely you'd get one flying to LAX than JFK though, due to the considerable extra distance involved, so hopefully you'll be lucky. That's how I'd have it anyway!

Feelgood

datk wrote: »

Anyone flown with Aer Lingus to Los Angeles? What are the planes like - do you have your own screen - with such a long flight - and me not being too fond of flying I could do with all the distractions I can get!!! I could go through London and go with Virgin and BA but if I can go direct from Dublin with the same distractions that would be better.

Thanks in advance

F**k that, fly to London and get BA. Its a very long flight to be stuck on a crappy plane. BA are great, its really worth flying to London to fly with them...
You have your own personal TV, loads of movies, radio stations. 3 meals, unlimited supply of free beverages, socks, toothbrush, blanket and extremely professional staff...

Apparently Aer Finglas have got a few new modern Airbuses with mod cons..but the chances you will get one is slim. I always go with BA for trans atlantic, its definately worth the extra hour or two for comfort...

Only thing is that when you flying home you actually have to fly over Ireland and then fly back again and its a nightmare going through Heathrow on the way back cause your jet lagged and generally feel like sh1te.....

BuffyBot

They tend (but it's no guarantee) to put the newer model planes on the LAX/SFO routes so you will probably get lucky..but make back up plans

Lisapeep

On our outward flight to LAX we had no individual screens but on our homeward flight to Dublin we each had our own individual screen. I heard somewhere before that there's a 50% chance of getting your own individual screen on the flight, but that was in 2005 so the situation may have gotten better since then.

If you dont like flying then only having the one flight to go on to get there helps, I think! Rather than having a flight to London and then another one to LAX!

keefg

Feelgood wrote: »

F**k that, fly to London and get BA

Or if you want a really good flight, go to London & fly Virgin

highlydebased

The new aircraft have been tasked exclusivly to operate SNN-DUB-ORD and DUB-SFO at the moment.

skibum

Aer lingus Airbus A330-200 EI DUO, EI DAA, Airbus A330-300 EI DUZ
are the planes you want, they have the screens in the backs of the seats.
Going to Boston (ORD) in may, hope to get one of these, those tellys that drop down are a bit 1980's :rolleyes:

highlydebased

ORD is Chicago....... :P

BOS is Boston

dogmatix

Worst experience of in-flight entertainment was going to Seattle with NW in 2003. No back seat TV's - not even drop down aisle TV's - nope, it was a projected image on the bulkhead at the front of economy. I'd only ever seen that sort of thing on old movies from the 1970's. My first rule of transatlantic travel is avoid the north american carriers like the plague, fly the likes of AL if you must, but first choice has to be BA or Virgin.

Going through london is not too bad - Gatwick is a much nicer experience then Heathrow if you can get a transatlantic flight from there.

skibum

Neon-Circles wrote: »

ORD is Chicago....... :P

BOS is Boston

Your right , got mixed up , my better half is going to Chicago in september, got my ORD's and BOS's in a bit of a knot, Thanks

K!LL!@N

I flew back home from Dublin to LAX in June and it was one of the newer planes with the individual screens.
To say I was overjoyed was an understatement as I'd flown the same route before with the older planes and it was a nightmare.

As far as I know they've been upgrading the planes on the LAX route and the SFO route has all new planes.
My mum flew the SFO route just a couple weeks ago and it was new planes over and back.

If you don't want to take a chance then fly Virgin Atlantic from London.
I didn't want to get off the plane the last time I flew with them.
I think I watched 3 or 4 films and was just in the middle of another when we landed.

Killian