185 left stranded at Shannon

roundymac

185 passengers were left stranded at Shannon yesterday after Aer Lingus cancelled their flight due to techincal issues. However it appears the isssues were not with the plane they were due to fly in but with another aircraft in Dublin. link to the story below.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/185-left-stranded-as-jet-is-sent-to-dublin-188850.html

Joe 90

When I saw the thread title I assumed a Cessna 185. Seriously, I wondered how the f a C185 could be stranded.

EI-DOR

Funny, I was thinking the exact same Joe when I seen it!

xflyer

Well it could have been worse, there might have been 787 left stranded.:P or 1011.

They were a bit unlucky though but 350 passengers trump 185.

BrianD

Could Aer Lingus be the first to coin a new excuse that will probably become standard excuse within the industry ...

"“The flight was cancelled due to technical issues within the fleet."

Translated this means that there are other passengers more important than you or are going to cost us more than you.

coylemj

BrianD wrote: »

Translated this means that there are other passengers more important than you or are going to cost us more than you.

The latter I'd say.

They had a choice to either put 185 people into hotels in the Shannon region or 350 in Dublin - do the math!

Dacian

coylemj wrote: »

......They had a choice to either put 185 people into hotels in the Shannon region or 350 in Dublin - do the math!

Unfortunately in this day and age most company is run by numbers people. So 185 costs less than 300+ (An EI A330 has up to 327 capacity according to wikipedia)

Apparently they were all flown out today instead.

Zonda999

So the "350" stranded in Dublin couldn't possibly be the case seeing as an EI A330 can only carry 322 people, doesnt change tbhings a whole lot but there was no need for clearly inaccurate figures to be used

Stovepipe

The technical issue was a catering truck having struck an aircraft that had just parked on stand, thereby throwing the schedule into disarray. Aer Lingus did not deliberately abandon anyone.
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Stovepipe

Stinicker

Better to strand 185 than 350 passengers anyday. I'd still be mad though if I was one of the 185 stuck in Shannon.

Turbo Porter

Omni or Condor 767 to the rescue as in the past.Then again it was a measured disruption in that 185 in the local 3 stars in the SNN region for one night...cheaper than hiring in an aircraft and crew.

EchoIndia

Aer Lingus A330 EI-DAA operated SNN-BOS today as EI2135, presumably with the pax involved. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/EIN2135

castie

Stovepipe wrote: »

The technical issue was a catering truck having struck an aircraft that had just parked on stand, thereby throwing the schedule into disarray. Aer Lingus did not deliberately abandon anyone.
regards
Stovepipe

They sent their plane to Dublin instead.
If thats not intentionally choosing to let the shannon passengers without an aircraft I dont know what is.

urajoke

Simple economics I'm afraid. It's cheaper to dump on 185 than 350 (pax+crew+round up for sensationalisation maybe) !

roundymac

@stovepipe, can you clear up something for me please, was it one or two aircraft were out of service? The initial reports were saying that one went tech and the other was hit by a truck. So was a journo being (a) lazy,(b) unable to understand the facts (c) beefing up the story to make more dramatic?

Ennisman

Zonda999 wrote: »

So the "350" stranded in Dublin couldn't possibly be the case seeing as an EI A330 can only carry 322 people, doesnt change tbhings a whole lot but there was no need for clearly inaccurate figures to be used

Read the article. No one said all 350 went on the one plane.

The 350 from the total pax from the two planes which were grounded at Dublin.

Not "clearly inaccurate figures used". You didn't read the article.

Pacing Mule

Ennisman wrote: »

Read the article. No one said all 350 went on the one plane.

The 350 from the total pax from the two planes which were grounded at Dublin.

Not "clearly inaccurate figures used". You didn't read the article.

Em ...

The Article wrote:

Aer Lingus decided to cancel the Shannon/Boston flight and send the Airbus jet to Dublin, where more than 350 passengers were grounded because of issues with their aircraft.

That clearly states more than 350 passengers were grounded in Dublin.

Ennisman

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Em ...



That clearly states more than 350 passengers were grounded in Dublin.

No one is arguing with that. They were from two different planes. One went tech the other was damaged.

The other guy was arguing that the figure of 350 was wrong because an A330 can only take 322 pax. Also correct.

The figure of 350 is still correct because they were from two planes.

Su Campu

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Em ...



That clearly states more than 350 passengers were grounded in Dublin.

Yes, but....

Its understood that two planes were taken out of service at Dublin because one aircraft suffered a technical issue while another jet was damaged after it was struck by a ground vehicle.

PS. A nice lack of English punctuation shown by the journalist there, leaving out the apostrophe in "Its understood that....." :rolleyes:

Ennisman

Don't be a plonker. That's an issue for the sub-editor or copy taker. It doesn't mean the journo left it out.

Haven't you very little to be worrying you.

Pacing Mule

Ah my bad - had not read the rest of the article when I posted.

Apologies.

Su Campu

Ennisman wrote: »

Don't be a plonker. That's an issue for the sub-editor or copy taker. It doesn't mean the journo left it out.

Haven't you very little to be worrying you.

Whatever, it is just an illustration of the widespread lack of English basics that's to be found in almost every written article/blog/post nowadays.

Ennisman

Su Campu wrote: »

Whatever, it is just an illustration of the widespread lack of English basics that's to be found in almost every written article/blog/post nowadays.

Fair point.

Ennisman

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Ah my bad - had not read the rest of the article when I posted.

Apologies.

I had to read it a few times too.

I think the A330-200 series takes even less again than the 322 mentioned earlier so some were still left behind.