Aer Lingus Fleet/Routes Discussion

trellheim

trellheim wrote: »

why ? I thought it had been kept ready-to-go, is it a case of it not going on lease till then ?

While it may be green it's not theirs yet to use till Feb-Mar.

HTCOne

I presume 1 or 2 330s are in heavy maintenance at the moment?

Locker10a

Airlines don’t operate as logically as people might think. It’s often a case of departmental budgets and who’s is fully used and whos can still be used. Airlines like EI would have set procedures and budget for hire ins and a separate cost plan for aircraft leasing, maintenance and operations. In my experience of the industry they tend to stick to their plans, even if it doesn’t seem logical. In a previous company crew were being sent for about a 6 week period to cover a crew shortage in another base. The reason being, the seasonal crew were let go despite a clear need for them. Simply because the budget for seasonal crewing had been fully used. And to prevent that department going over budget they decided to send crew from other bases on constant layovers to this base, paying for transport, hotel cost (5-7 rooms per night) and crew nightstop allowances for up to 6 weeks. Doesn’t seem logical when they could have extended seasonal contracts for an extra month or 2 and be done with it but such is the logic of airlines.

Bussywussy

Deleted User wrote: »

trellheim wrote: »

why ? I thought it had been kept ready-to-go, is it a case of it not going on lease till then ?

While it may be green it's not theirs yet to use till Feb-Mar.

It is theirs,the bean counters prevented this from operating

Bussywussy

HTCOne wrote: »

I presume 1 or 2 330s are in heavy maintenance at the moment?

Starts next week I believe

Jamie2k9

Knew the hire in would happen, its easily 4-5 times cheaper financially for them to of hired in this time round.

CoisFharraige

pax got bussed to Cork and then flew to LHR and went onwards to LAX apparently.

JCX BXC

CoisFharraige wrote: »

pax got bussed to Cork and then flew to LHR and went onwards to LAX apparently.

I'd imagine that was only a small percentage of PAX!

kevinandrew

Especially when you consider there was apparently 262 passengers on board + 16 crew according to the ATC recordings. That's pretty much a full load for EI-LAX which has the capacity for 266 pax I believe.

trellheim

Yes but they are sticking them on a 787 or A380 if its BA they'll have squeezed them in .. wonder if a few would have banged the table, got a taxi, and got out on the early Ethiopian

LXFlyer

trellheim wrote: »

Yes but they are sticking them on a 787 or A380 if its BA they'll have squeezed them in .. wonder if a few would have banged the table, got a taxi, and got out on the early Ethiopian

I think that the point is that they wouldn’t all have fitted on the regular Cork-LHR A320, and that is even before you consider the regular passengers already booked on that service.

kevinandrew

LXFlyer wrote: »

trellheim wrote: »

Yes but they are sticking them on a 787 or A380 if its BA  they'll have squeezed them in .. wonder if a few would have banged the table, got a taxi,  and got out on the early Ethiopian

I think that the point is that they wouldn’t all have fitted on the regular Cork-LHR A320, and that is even before you consider the regular passengers already booked on that service.

Which itself is almost always full in the evenings in my experience, not sure about post Christmas load factors though.

LXFlyer

kevinandrew wrote: »

Which itself is almost always full in the evenings in my experience, not sure about post Christmas load factors though.

I’d imagine that seats were at a premium!

kub

I wonder did EI lay on an extra flight to Heathrow ex Cork last night, which would make sense now as i recall one heading out while another was inbound to Cork, i never noticed that before.

JCX BXC

Even on that it wouldn't have taken all PAX affected. I'd imagine it was only one of the many avenues that people would have been accommodated on.

HTCOne

I wouldn’t be surprised if they got 100 odd out on the SNN-BOS flight

Jamie2k9

Majority were bused to DUB and flew out this morning.

JCX BXC

HTCOne wrote: »

I wouldn’t be surprised if they got 100 odd out on the SNN-BOS flight

Jaysus loads aren't that bad on the route! Especially at this time of year. Bit of realism needed.

highlydebased

kub wrote:

I wonder did EI lay on an extra flight to Heathrow ex Cork last night, which would make sense now as i recall one heading out while another was inbound to Cork, i never noticed that before.

A scheduled Xmas extra flight.

If it was laid on especially one would imagine it would have been from SNN!

I flew SNN LHR yesterday and there were a few onboard.

joe316

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Bussywussy

Don't be surprised if GCF comes into service over the next few days....

trellheim

Any news on EI_LAX then ?

rushfan

Bussywussy wrote:

Don't be surprised if GCF comes into service over the next few days....

It was in Hangar 6 yesterday

zone 1

is it not time to invest in the 320 fleet, ive seen 321NEO LR for across the pond and 330s but just one 320 thats 8 years old EI GAL FOR 320 FLEET

trellheim

search back through the thread you will find much enlightenment

basill

is it not time to invest in the 320 fleet

Fill ur boots.

http://www.jethros.org.uk/

goingnowhere

Titan with a EI callsign landed Dublin earlier from Stansted

EI-LAX is still in Shannon

rushfan

goingnowhere wrote:

Titan with a EI callsign landed Dublin earlier from Stansted

Looks like it's scheduled to do the EI 137 Boston

Pat Dunne

basill wrote: »

Fill ur boots.

http://www.jethros.org.uk/

Can't really follow all that, what does it mean?

trellheim

If you look at http://www.jethros.org.uk/fleets/fleet_listings/aer_lingus.htm


you will see there are a bunch of NEOs on order ( it shows a bunch of 350s as well but dont take that too seriously )