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Aer Lingus plane type query

  • 10-10-2013 3:30pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭


    Quick query

    I fly Heathrow / Cork on a weekly basis and it's always an Airbus A320 which has 29 rows.

    I normally select seat 28A so was surprised to check in today and find an option up to row 36 ? Just wondering what type aircraft this is


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 396 ✭✭Sigourney


    Andip wrote: »
    Quick query

    I fly Heathrow / Cork on a weekly basis and it's always an Airbus A320 which has 29 rows.

    I normally select seat 28A so was surprised to check in today and find an option up to row 36 ? Just wondering what type aircraft this is

    A321?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭Simon Gruber Says


    Andip wrote: »
    Quick query

    I fly Heathrow / Cork on a weekly basis and it's always an Airbus A320 which has 29 rows.

    I normally select seat 28A so was surprised to check in today and find an option up to row 36 ? Just wondering what type aircraft this is

    Most likely the A321, the stretched version of the A320. Aer Lingus operate a few of them, mostly on the London routes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    Most likely the A321, the stretched version of the A320. Aer Lingus operate a few of them, mostly on the London routes


    Thanks for that....just curious


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭kub


    Is it an incoming Cork flight on a holiday weekend? Just wondering as EI used to have one permanently assigned to that route a few years ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭Shamrock841


    EI have been using the A321 on the cork-heathrow route with the last few days


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭kub


    Is one of the 320's undergoing servicing and the 321 covering or is the route busier this time of year?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    kub wrote: »
    Is it an incoming Cork flight on a holiday weekend? Just wondering as EI used to have one permanently assigned to that route a few years ago.

    It's the 22.15 Friday 11th Heathrow to cork so not bank holiday


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,553 ✭✭✭Dogwatch


    Heineken rugby weekend maybe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    Why would Airbus go to all the trouble of designing the A321 with just and extra 7 rows on the A320


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    because the aircraft fills a need for more seats and longer range, whilst maintaining crew and spares commonality with the 320 and 319.

    regards
    Stovepipe


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    Stovepipe wrote: »
    because the aircraft fills a need for more seats and longer range, whilst maintaining crew and spares commonality with the 320 and 319.

    regards
    Stovepipe

    Ok thanks, as a passenger rather than an aviation guy, just seemed there must have been a lot of additional design cost for 21 seats. Actually quite excited...it's a new plane on my list


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭sunnysoutheast


    Andip wrote: »
    Ok thanks, as a passenger rather than an aviation guy, just seemed there must have been a lot of additional design cost for 21 seats. Actually quite excited...it's a new plane on my list

    21 seats on every flight sector.....

    Relatively easy to shrink and expand the basic airframe by removing/adding fuselage segments.

    The A321 has a few more than the A320, with the A319 and A318 having progressively fewer. Virtually the same wings, tail, etc.

    Same pilots can fly all types.

    Same with the 737-300/400/500/900, 757-200/300 families etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    21 seats on every flight sector.....

    Relatively easy to shrink and expand the basic airframe by removing/adding fuselage segments.

    The A321 has a few more than the A320, with the A319 and A318 having progressively fewer. Virtually the same wings, tail, etc.

    Same pilots can fly all types.

    Same with the 737-300/400/500/900, 757-200/300 families etc.

    Thanks, fascinating stuff..I can't quite believe it's as simple as meccano..wings moved, balance etc but very interesting


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,581 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    7 extra rows is not 21 seats, its 42. However with EIs layout, its 38 more than the 320. Some of the rows are down on seats due to cabin crew seating from memory.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭kub


    Dogwatch wrote: »
    Heineken rugby weekend maybe.

    But Munster are playing up in Edinburgh tomorrow.


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