Aer Lingus Fleet/ Routes Discussion Pt 2 (ALL possible routes included)

Dodge

that is not new at all. The majority of sightseers have always skewed older

Speaking as someone who’s transitioning that way

There’s always outliers, but generally young people go on holiday to do stuff and older people go on holiday to see stuff

And most trips have a mix of both anyway

Locker10a

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597662#Comment_123597662

Ok cool sounds pretty good then.

I wonder if they time the flights well could they capture connections to the US and Canaries, generally very popular with Norwegians

EchoIndia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123599961#Comment_123599961

There are already lots of flights from Norway to the Canaries so unless fares are low I doubt there's much of a market there.

Locker10a

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123600198#Comment_123600198

Couldn’t see any direct flights from Trondheim, so if they launch that route, potential passengers who desire the canaries (very popular with Scandinavians in winter) would be as well to connect in Dublin as anywhere

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123600218#Comment_123600218

Tromso is being claimed here, not Trondheim, and it has Gran Canaria seasonals - not checking whether that's Summer or Winter though!

Trondheim actually has even more sun destinations as seasonals.

Locker10a

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123600241#Comment_123600241

Ah thanks, my mistake!

The last time I went down to the canaries there was a group of about 6 Swiss passengers who were connecting from Geneva . I thought it was interesting and surprising. But there is obviously potential there .

Touristx73

Following the recent announcement by Tui of them switching to partner airlines in 2026, will we see EI operate more sun routes on their behalf?

Locker10a

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123600421#Comment_123600421

They already sold seats on EI flights so I suppose that will continue. I’d imagine any routes not covered by EI and FR will possibly be covered by a charter ?!
I wouldn’t know off the top of my head what routes they would be. But it’s possible a further deal could be done with EI

Touristx73

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123600434#Comment_123600434

They had a monopoly on DUB-NBE, DUB-LCA and ORK-CFU, so that will be presumably be covered by a charter like Smartlynx, or maybe EI, still up in the air atm.

Touristx73

Aer Lingus new routes:

Dublin-Turin from 21st December

Cork-Geneva from 20th December

Cork-Prague from 23rd October

Source: https://www.aerlingus.com/en-ie/new-winter-routes-2025

revelman

Thanks! Good for Cork. EI have also increased frequency to Lyon and Munich from Cork to twice weekly (although the extra flight to Munich seems to be only a short period from end of November to Christmas).

Van.Bosch

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123600474#Comment_123600474

so no Tromso

Noxegon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123600438#Comment_123600438

Or not in the air yet, as the case may be. (I'm here all week.)

KB77

so how many aircraft will they base in Cork for this winter does anyone know. Taught I read previously that the possibility was 2 x 320 neos but what would the chances of a 3rd aircraft which would more than lightly be one of the older 320’s

TheBrownBird32

2x 320neos, 1x 320

Astral Nav

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123600588#Comment_123600588

'Never believe everything you read on the Internet.'

Abraham Lincoln.

thomil

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597243#Comment_123597243

Apologies for butting in two days later, I'm not a regular poster on this thread. Tromsø is also a major stop on the Hurtigrute, the Norwegian coastal ferry route. This route runs daily from Bergen to Kirkenes and calls in many ports that aren't served by "regular" cruise ships, since the ships on the route are a vital part of the local supply system. Many people do either the full round trip, I did it back in November '24, others go only one way. There's also a surprising amount of people who just go for the "highlights" portion of the trip from Tromsø to Kirkenes though. When I did the round trip last year, I was surprised at just how busy our ship got in Tromsø!

The companies operating on that route are Havila Voyages and Hurtigruten, if you want to dig deeper.

jwm121

EI-GEY looks to be back, flying the EI584 to Malaga.

pilatus

EI-XLW

https://x.com/Tobias_Gudat/status/1940824702286745654?t=xb848QtSShAQ4gbs2Ysa7Q&s=19

jreams08

Can anyone tell me why EI will launch CUN like a week after Christmas? So many people would’ve went there for a Christmas getaway and they launch it when everyone’s back to school and work

Tenger

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123606013#Comment_123606013

Their aircraft are very busy in December and the 1st week of January.

They launched it to cover a drop in fleet utilisation.

cson

On EI111 SNN-JFK right now in Y and was able to do a quick count on my way to the lav; J full and 15 empty in Y for a 92% LF. Impressive stuff for a Tuesday imo - not too many (any?) connections either in SNN so that’s O&D for the majority.

ciandonn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123615149#Comment_123615149

There isn’t much opportunities to connect besides Paris which is only twice a week unfortunately so it would have to be practically all O&D.

I guess some passengers could do their own connection through a ryanair flight but you wouldn’t find that on any official website and would have to be done personally

cson

Tbf there’s opportunity to connect in the States (as indeed I am doing) so there’s some connecting pax, versus say the IAD route where I’d estimate generally more than half the aircraft is connecting.

I will say these A321LRs are starting to show a decent bit of wear from the utilization, tray tables, seats and lavs are looking a bit rough for a 4 year old aircraft in LRE.

kevinandrew

The short haul hops they do and general high utilisation won't be helping matters there.

It won't happen anytime soon but they should refit them with the XLR product. Once the A330s are done, the LR will have the oldest cabin product in the long haul fleet.

LimaBravoTango

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123615149#Comment_123615149

I flew SNN-BOS at the end of last month. There was only one free seat in economy. Business was full. Great to see these flights doing well.

Tenger

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123615702#Comment_123615702

I think you have stumbled upon the plan that is almost confirmed……….

Shamrockj

agree with the comments about the A321NEOLR, the seats are looking very worn / bobbly already on the fabric and a lot of the seats don’t stay fully upright. I guess they are 5/6 years old now and at the mid stage of the seats life but not ageing very well. Also the old style A330 seats on -DUZ/-EAV are very very bad, seat cushions are falling off, seat fabric isn’t fully fitting the seats also. A refresh is needed.

jwm121

Does anyone know how many passengers Aer Lingus carried in 2024?

kevinandrew

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123617719#Comment_123617719

11 million.

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