Aerlingus

drdeadlift

Was moochin about on twitter,and follow a good few airlines and aviation related stuff.Was wonder as to why are EI have an official account on twitter but dont tweet at all.
They have a few thousand followers dont see the point in not taking advantage of it.

donvito99

They recently got going on Facebook, so I guess it's one step at a time for them. A twitter feed would be handy for us pax. I recently received notification of flight delays with another airline due to weather on twitter a good 15-20 mins before it was announced at the gate.

donvito99

And in other news, Aer Lingus CEO Christoph Mueller has been appointed Chairman of An Post.

IRLConor

donvito99 wrote: »

I recently received notification of flight delays with another airline due to weather on twitter a good 15-20 mins before it was announced at the gate.

TripIt is great for that.

It's very handy getting off a plane when you're connecting and getting a push notification to your phone saying something like "Your connection XX 123 is currently on time departing from terminal 1, gate C10 at 17:15. You have 1h 37m to make your connection.".

Bsal

I was just reading that Aer Lingus is to lease an A320 EI-DEO to Virgin Atlantic Little Red to operate on domestic routes from Heathrow to Manchester, Aberdeen and Edinburgh

http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/the-virgin-experience/little-red.html

kub

Bsal wrote: »

I was just reading that Aer Lingus is to lease an A320 EI-DEO to Virgin Atlantic Little Red to operate on domestic routes from Heathrow to Manchester, Aberdeen and Edinburgh

http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/the-virgin-experience/little-red.html[/QUOTE]

So one of EI's little Greens is to become a little Red.

b757

4 EI A320's will be painted in Virgin's Little Red livery.

EI-DEO -- Currently getting painted in SNN
EI-DEI -- Going to SNN on the 29th March for painting.
EI-EZV
EI-EZW

LHR-MAN will be the first route starting on the 31 March.
LHR-EDI will starting on the 05 April.
LHR-ABZ will start on the 09 April.

Tenger

Clarity provided

b757

Tenger wrote: »

Yup, typo..

Thanks!

kub

Have Aer Lingus got that many machines considering that they can lease out 4 just before the busy season?

b757

kub wrote: »

Have Aer Lingus got that many machines considering that they can lease out 4 just before the busy season?

They are bringing in two a320's too..

EI-EZW and EI-EZV , both ex Meridiana Fly.

Currently being stored in Singapore (XSP) apparently.. No idea on when they are due back. Must be soon anyway :P

donvito99

b757 wrote: »

They are bringing in two a320's too..

EI-EZW and EI-EZV , both ex Meridiana Fly.

Currently being stored in Singapore (XSP) apparently.. No idea on when they are due back. Must be soon anyway :P

Also 2 A319s should be entering the fleet.

b757

donvito99 wrote: »

Also 2 A319s should be entering the fleet.

Yup 2 ex Iberia.

EI-EPT & EI-EPU (I think) should be the ones.. Arriving soon I believe.

Jamie2k9

The A319's enter service on 1 and 14 May.

Tabnabs

b757 wrote: »

They are bringing in two a320's too..

EI-EZW and EI-EZV , both ex Meridiana Fly.

Currently being stored in Singapore (XSP) apparently.. No idea on when they are due back. Must be soon anyway :P

Flightradar24.com
Outside of Singapore test flight of EI-EZW A320 that will be deliverd to Aer Lingus for Virgin UK domestic flights.

Tenger

b757 wrote: »

They are bringing in two a320's too..

EI-EZW and EI-EZV , both ex Meridiana Fly.

Currently being stored in Singapore (XSP) apparently.. No idea on when they are due back. Must be soon anyway :P

Well first flite is this Sunday so expect them to be ferried to MAN by Fri/Sat.

Here's a pic of the test flight:
http://www.skyliner-aviation.de/viewphoto.main?LC=nav2&picid=8283

So 1 painted already, another 2 being refitted in DUB and SNN, looks tight but getting there.

omega man

donvito99 wrote: »

Also 2 A319s should be entering the fleet.

Yep......... EPT and EPU

Jamie2k9

If there is anybody working in EI could you PM, somebody is scheduling or operations.

donvito99

Nearly April 1st...

james142

donvito99 wrote: »

Nearly April 1st...

Thank Christ that was a joke.. passengers would think we are nuts!

b757

http://fr24.com/EIEZV

On delivery, i believe it maybe going to DUB first.

EDIT: 15:50, On Approach to RWY10

donvito99

http://irishaviationresearchinstitute.blogspot.ie/2013/04/ge-capital-aviation-services-gecas-to.html

Any idea on the logic behind this?

And will they be sharklet equipped?

EDIT: From another forum

GECAS will lease two ex Eurofly/Meridiana Fly aircraft (EI-EZV & EI-EZW) to Aer Lingus both operating for Virgin Atlantic Little Red.

EI-EZV has already been delivered and EI-EZW should be delivered from Singapore on Sunday, heading to Aberdeen on Monday.

Peregrine

donvito99 wrote: »

http://irishaviationresearchinstitute.blogspot.ie/2013/04/ge-capital-aviation-services-gecas-to.html

Any idea on the logic behind this?

And will they be sharklet equipped?

Weren't 2 of the Little Reds leased from GECAS, no?

Edit: Sorry, yeah they already took delivery of the first one, landed on the 3rd like b757 said above.

Shamrock231

Problem is in deciding whether or not the aircraft in question are indeed the Virgin ones (most likely), or new ones (Please please please sharklets) that'll be used for mainline Aer Lingus.

The fleet is pretty stretched this summer, assuming they are for mainline, perhaps being brought in to add some flexibility, allow other aircraft to go and be fitted with Wi-Fi which is supposed to be coming online by the end of the year (excuse the pun), or add some frequency. Any guesses?

Tenger

Shamrock231 wrote: »

Problem is in deciding whether or not the aircraft in question are indeed the Virgin ones (most likely), or new ones (Please please please sharklets) that'll be used for mainline Aer Lingus.....

I'm gonna guess that this refers to the 2 'Little Red' aircraft. EI have no deliveries due. No sharklet equipped aicrraft have been spotted in TLS or XFW.

"....GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) announced it will lease two Airbus A320 aircraft to new customer Aer Lingus, delivery of the aircraft is scheduled for this month."

bannerlady20

EI-EZW arrived in Dublin on delivery to Aer Lingus for Virgin Atlantic Little Red operations. EI-EZW flew XSP-MLE-AUH-SOF-DUB on its delivery flight today.

It will start Virgin Atlantic Little Red on Monday the 15th of April. VS are increasing the EDI-LHR route to six daily flights on Monday. It currently operates just three daily.

EI-EZV began operating for Virgin Atlantic Little Red on Tuesday. It's first flight was VS3026, which was the first ABZ-LHR service.