Anyone got any sources of Historic Aer Lingus Fares?

ceret

I'm in a long distance relationship and so I'm a frequent Ryanair customer. My mum was telling me about going over to her sister in London in the 1980s and that the flight cost about £200 or so. I'm curious about how much fares used to cost, is there any source of some old aer lingus fare prices?

squonk

Surely you mean 1980's don't you

Foggy43

Has this anything to do with a comment made on the last 'Question and Answers' show last night?
I never knew there was a time nearly 30 years ago it was against the law to under cut Aer Lingus on any route in and out of Ireland. They were discussing how things had changed in Ireland while the show was running.

ceret

squonk wrote: »

Surely you mean 1980's don't you

Oh yes you're right. Fixed.

Foggy43 wrote: »

Has this anything to do with a comment made on the last 'Question and Answers' show last night?
I never knew there was a time nearly 30 years ago it was against the law to under cut Aer Lingus on any route in and out of Ireland. They were discussing how things had changed in Ireland while the show was running.

No I didn't see that. I'll have to look for that show. This is out of the blue.

zagmund

I used to do contract work in Amsterdam around 2000/2001. The client would ring up in the afternoon and say they needed someone there the next morning. The return fares were more or less €800 with this notice. With a weeks notice they were still about €400.

z

spurious

I had to fly at very short notice to Bristol on 12th July, 1985 (the day before Live Aid) and the fare was £162.

Foggy43

I was just thinking back. I think most airlines had this 'Saturday night stop' included in their tickets. If you did not Saturday night stop you got screwed.

Our man in Havana

Foggy43 wrote: »

I was just thinking back. I think most airlines had this 'Saturday night stop' included in their tickets. If you did not Saturday night stop you got screwed.

Even Ryanair had that in the beginging.

tuom

I went to London in 1978 to see my brothers who were working there i remember the cost was about £200+ I could not afford this and went by boat HORROR first and last time I ever went on a boat,

rainbowtrout

zagmund wrote: »

I used to do contract work in Amsterdam around 2000/2001. The client would ring up in the afternoon and say they needed someone there the next morning. The return fares were more or less €800 with this notice. With a weeks notice they were still about €400.

z

That sounds about right, went to Amsterdam in 2001 for a holiday while in college, got the flight half price because of some deal with token's collected for flights from Tesco or something similar and the flight was still £200 return which was half price.

JMcCR

For the sake of comparison Dub-> Ams costs me 160 each week now on average return.. except the middle of summer (Usually about €200 ish)

445279.ie

My sister moved to Zurich over 20 years ago and when we visited her in the first few years the fare was about £400 :eek:

Luckily it's come down a lot. Got it the cheapest ever last month when I only paid €78

mark 2008

I was living in London in 1989, and I remember Aer Lingus had a special fare of 59 British pounds return that spring. It went up to 69 in the peak season, but was brilliant as back then there were still free in-flight meals, free drinks, and you could bring as much luggage as you wanted. The fare rule was that you had to book a month ahead and stay a saturday night. I think British Airways had the same fare though they didn't have as many seats at that rate.
It was just at the time competition was starting on the route - Ryanair (BAC1-11) and Virgin/ Club air (using a B727) were doing Luton, and BA (757 and 737) and British Midland (737) were doing Heathrow. I think Dan Air were still around doing Gatwick.
In those days before the internet, I used to go to the Aer Lingus office off Regent Street to book.
Travel has changed a lot since then , as back then if you turned up early for a flight and there was room on the previous one they would happily let you on. You also used to be able to smoke on board.
Aer Lingus were using a mix of 737s , the odd BAC 1-11 and for Christmas 1988 they hired in a DC10 from ATA.

kelle

I lived in London from 1989, and I remember the fares being about £85 sterling return (Heathrow-Dublin) when I first moved there. British Airways, Capitol Airways and British Midland flew the same route and cost exactly the same, so I liked to be patriotic and always fly Aer Lingus. In April 1990, I booked my Christmas flight home and it cost £105 which shocked me at the time (and I nearly missed the bloody flight too as all the tubes and trains were jampacked and we couldn't get on them!).