Seasonal flights with Aer Lingus

corblimey

Anyone know how far ahead Aer Lingus tend to publish times and prices for flights they only do seasonally? For example, I'm planning a trip to Portugal next year, and no matter what dates I enter, I get

Flights do not operate on your selected travel date/s. Aer Lingus operates from Mar 30 2014 - Oct 25 2014 on days Mon Thu

Fair enough, but what about 2015, Aer Lingus? I thought after the 2014 date had passed, they would let me book for next year, but not so far.
I don't fancy calling customer services and spending an hour on hold just to check.

roundymac

Probably not loaded into their booking system yet. Try timetables on their website and see what that tells you.

corblimey

roundymac wrote: »

Probably not loaded into their booking system yet. Try timetables on their website and see what that tells you.

Thanks, but same problem

This route does not operate in the month selected.

Maybe they've abandoned the route??

munchkin_utd

corblimey wrote: »

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I don't fancy calling customer services and spending an hour on hold just to check.

any time I've rang aerlingus ive been through either straight away or with little delay even at what you'd think are busy times.

highlydebased

What route is it?

coylemj

Lisbon and Faro are in both the Aer Lingus summer and winter timetables for 2014 so they are year round routes, it sounds like you're trying to book too far in advance. Even if they were accepting bookings, chances are they will fleece you.

corblimey

highlydebased wrote: »

What route is it?

ORK-LIS

coylemj wrote: »

Lisbon and Faro are in both the Aer Lingus summer and winter timetables for 2014 so they are year round routes, it sounds like you're trying to book too far in advance. Even if they were accepting bookings, chances are they will fleece you.

Well, I'm not trying to book yet, but I do need to know dates and potentially times in order to start planning my trip.

Maybe DUB-LIS is a year round route, but not ORK-LIS

highlydebased

I believe ORK-LIS has been discontinued, spotted someone talking about it on Twitter only yesterday!

corblimey

Well, I did a search on cancellations, and found a post on this very site claiming the same thing except for 2014. Cork Airport got on the thread in late December and announced the route was back for 2014, so I think I'll hang on, unless you have some inside line on this.

I guess DUB-LIS is also a possibility, but it adds several hours to my journey both ways.

highlydebased

This is the Twitter post I saw- https://twitter.com/pedigreedogs/status/527425081417687041

corblimey

Cheers for that. No response from AL or Cork Airport yet though