Why AL flights cancelled but RA flights aren't?

Random

Why are most of the Aer Lingus cancelled or delayed at Dublin Airport today while all the Ryanair ones appear to have departed without issue?

I realise there was airport closure earlier, but how can it effect AL so badly and not RA? Any insight I'm missing?

Thanks

misterq

Yeah I'm puzzled by this too (and slightly worried, but not flying with them until Sunday). No mention on the Aer Lingus or Dublin Airport sites as to why.

Because Aer Lingus will find any reason at all to cancel a flight. It's not at all uncommon for their flight(s) to be the only ones cancelled on the departures board. Why that is, I don't know. Several times in the last few months, my dad had to take a Ryanair flight back to Ireland because the AL one was cancelled without explanation.

devnull

Similar happened late January early February last year, when Aer Lingus were cancelling huge numbers of flights whilst Ryanair were cancelling very little, in a lot of cases going to/from the same areas.

I was caught in all of this as was my girlfriend, Ryanair were proactively giving information and offering flights to/from alternative airports free of charge to change as well as their next avaliable flight from the original start and end points, whilst Aer Lingus were simply saying very little and telling people they would be on the next avaliable flight with no option to change.

Also seems that there is less flexibility when things do go wrong, as at this time Aer Lingus also started cancelling sizeable numbers of flights for the following two days due to poor weather forecasts predicted, whilst no doubt crew may have got displaced, Ryanair seemed to avoid any of these issues that occured as a result of previous issues. I see Aer Lingus have already cancelled a number of flights tommorow so it seems to be happening again.

As O'Leary once said, a plane doesn't earn him money when it's on the ground. There is no chance he would allow a plane to be grounded when it can be run, and with Aer Lingus, it's rather different and there is the difference between the two companies, O'Leary wouldn't tolerate any fools.

I once had a AL flight cancelled because of predicted bad weather four days ahead of the flight. No doubt their crystal ball must have been a great tool to them, turns out on the day the weather was fine and they looked complete idiots for cancelling a flight based on predicted weather.

January

Was the same in Manchester on the 20th December. AL cancelling flights while Ryanair flying out with delays.

ro2

Supposed to be flying to Barcelona at 06:40 and got a text earlier saying the flight was cancelled.

Phoned Aer Lingus after the Friday flight was cancelled and they said the needed the plane for a busier flight and wouldn't be flying.