Anyone on for emailing Aer Lingus ???

Liam Byrne

Maybe I'm getting cranky, but I got a REAL itch to email Aer Lingus on the back of their current smug TV advertising campaign.....

"Airports that aren't miles from anywhere....." :rolleyes:

It's presumably a dig at RyanAir's "outlying airports" strategy.

Last time I looked, Dublin Airport was about 135 miles from Limerick, which is MUCH further than any airport RyanAir fly into.

Should we pull the traitors up on this ?? Definitely going to email a one-line letter to one or two newpapers, just to give AL the two fingers for abandoning us....... (where's that moon icon?)

highlydebased

Haha

Certainly is an idea!

ninty9er

When you get a reply, post the email address and I'll bang one off.

Itsdacraic

ninty9er wrote: »

I'll bang one off.

Jaysus don't get that excited over it.

Limerick Dude

Itsdacraic wrote: »

Jaysus don't get that excited over it.

Lmao

White_Feather

what are you going to do now that ryanair are to pull 3 of their 4 flights out of shannon because of the new 10euro levy that is being introduced. Maybe you should email the government while your at it too.....

ninty9er

White_Feather wrote: »

what are you going to do now that ryanair are to pull 3 of their 4 flights out of shannon because of the new 10euro levy that is being introduced. Maybe you should email the government while your at it too.....

Sure what has the levy got to do with Ryanair. It doesn't make it any more or less profitable.

Liam Byrne

White_Feather wrote: »

Maybe you should email the government while your at it too.....

Not much point in emailing that shower; they've no interest in Shannon; they proved that last year when - as the main shareholder in Aer Lingus - they waxed lyrical and pretended to be concerned and then refused to vote in favour of Shannon.

Separate issue, though.....this thread is ONLY about the wording of the ad which - purely BECAUSE of their decisions - is ironically a complete lie and a farce.

Liam Byrne

ninty9er wrote: »

Sure what has the levy got to do with Ryanair. It doesn't make it any more or less profitable.

It goes COMPLETELY against the Government's supposed "regional development strategy" by making flights from non-Dublin airports more expensive.

Please discuss that (if so desired) in a separate thread, though. Both this ad and the shafting we got from Aer Fungus (with both the Belfast route and the more recent redundancies) were completely within their own control.

And their own actions make the ad a lie, so it's well worth highlighting - both to them and to the papers.

White_Feather

ninty9er wrote: »

Sure what has the levy got to do with Ryanair. It doesn't make it any more or less profitable.

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/ryanair-to-pull-flights-at-shannon-1511455.html

I dunno! I think O'Leary is just using it as an excuse. The loads on his flights are probably $hite and he isnt man enough to admit that he isn't doing the best down there.The article explains it all.

Anyway, dont mean to go off topic!

Liam Byrne

White_Feather wrote: »

The article explains it all.

A Dublin tabloid "explains it all" for something outside the Pale ? Forgive my scepticism.

Anyways, back on topic.....

ninty9er

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Anyways, back on topic.....

Where does this email go??

bucks73

Maybe the right people to contact are the Advertising Standards Authority?

http://www.asai.ie/complain.asp

zuroph

White_Feather wrote: »

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/ryanair-to-pull-flights-at-shannon-1511455.html

I dunno! I think O'Leary is just using it as an excuse. The loads on his flights are probably $hite and he isnt man enough to admit that he isn't doing the best down there.The article explains it all.

Anyway, dont mean to go off topic!

hopefully its just positioning by o leary, those flights are very busy!!

cooperguy

Well lads Aer Lingus were proven right to leave the Shannon - Heatrow route because even with all the effort put into trying to find another carrier to take over the route not a single one came forward. Obviously every other airline agreed with their decision that it wasnt profitable enough.

ninty9er

cooperguy wrote: »

Well lads Aer Lingus were proven right to leave the Shannon - Heatrow route because even with all the effort put into trying to find another carrier to take over the route not a single one came forward. Obviously every other airline agreed with their decision that it wasnt profitable enough.

Capacity at Heathrow is the problem, not profit, as losses don't seem to be fueling pulling the Belfast-LHR route.

Maybe ASAI is the right place to complain.

We could send one about the "Welcome to Ryanair Country" billboard at Shannon too considering you can fly to Brussels at 7:40 on a Monday but can't come back until 10:40 on Friday (unless that is, you want to stay on the plane and come straight back), or 10:05 on Sunday if the flight on Friday is too expensive.

This used to be a daily route, with 2 flights.

bazz26

ninty9er wrote: »

We could send one about the "Welcome to Ryanair Country" billboard at Shannon too considering you can fly to Brussels at 7:40 on a Monday but can't come back until 10:40 on Friday (unless that is, you want to stay on the plane and come straight back), or 10:05 on Sunday if the flight on Friday is too expensive.

This used to be a daily route, with 2 flights.

The Heathrow flight from Shannon had alot more traffic than the Brussels flights ever had especially from a business/commerical side of things. And if the Brussels route was more popular you can be guaranteed Michael O'Leary would have more flights going there.

Anyway the route is gone and with the state Aer Lingus is in at the moment it will not be coming back anytime soon, so time for people and Shannon Airport to move on and try to promote itself to other carriers imo.

seamus

The ASAI won't uphold it.

The line is "Airports that aren't miles from anywhere", implying that all of their airports are close to major towns or cities. Dublin airport is close to, well Dublin.

You would need to find an airport which isn't a short distance from any major town or city to prove your point.

seanybiker

bit pedantic really to be honest

topper75

cooperguy wrote: »

Well lads Aer Lingus were proven right to leave the Shannon - Heatrow route because even with all the effort put into trying to find another carrier to take over the route not a single one came forward. Obviously every other airline agreed with their decision that it wasnt profitable enough.

Logic slightly flawed there though - were the other carriers clamouring to run a Belfast route and found themselves edged out by AL?

I heard tell the Shannon route was profitable and that Belfast is struggling. You have heard different interestingly. Where could we find out this? Obviously AL themselves will not give the truth if it makes their decision look bad - are the published annual accounts broken down into routes?

cancan

cooperguy wrote: »

Well lads Aer Lingus were proven right to leave the Shannon - Heatrow route because even with all the effort put into trying to find another carrier to take over the route not a single one came forward. Obviously every other airline agreed with their decision that it wasnt profitable enough.

Try getting a heathrow landing slot.
When your own airline shafts you, not much you can do.

Also, they are not exactly filling their planes on the belfast - heathrow route.
So to say they were proven right is false - and the dodgy sterling can't be helping their belfast operation at the moment.

Liam Byrne

cancan wrote: »

When your own airline shafts you, not much you can do.

And when one of the main shareholders with a vote is the Government who's supposed to look after your interests, and still do nothing, you're REALLY screwed.

Cooperguy, loads of airlines might have come on board if there were slots available in Heathrow, but most airlines weren't prepared to take a gamble on moving a Heathrow slot from a currently profit-making route - unlike Aer Lingus, who did precisely that!