How far in advance do Aer Lingus sell Flights ?

SusanC10

Just checking if anyone knows how far in advance Aer Lingus sell their flights ? I thought it was 330 days in advance ?

My sister is looking to book Flights home for late July (within the 330 days) next Summer. From France. She noticed that there are No Flights available from any French destination after July 21st. I then put in a few random EU destinations to Dublin and sure enough nothing available after July 21st.

Aer Lingus are being odd and saying that the Flights are available and can be booked on the phone but won't accept Refund Vouchers as payment on the phone. Also the prices quoted on the phone are much higher than online - you can actually see the prices online even though it says that the Flight is unavailable.

Has anyone else come across this ? Or know what is going on ?

Atlantic Dawn

It's usually 9 months. Some routes they may offer flights on outside of this but they would generally be those of certaintly like say Dublin to Boston, Dublin to Paris etc.

SusanC10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117830090#Comment_117830090

Aer Lingus had said 330 days and the Flights to/from CDG were following that pattern until July 21st and then stopped as did all other routes that we looked at incl LHR and LGW.

Strange thing is that Aer Lingus are claiming that the Flights are available but we are in 2 different Countries looking on 2 different laptops.

MizMix

Yeah it's a strange one- was also trying to book France with aer lingus vouchers for next June (end June/back July) and ended up booking with ryanair as there doesn't seem to be any certainty over what routes they'll fly (plus they cancelled our sold out flights in August this year so I've less faith in them now) -ryanair more reliable as most of their flights to/from France in August seemed to go ahead. Regretting opting for the vouchers- it's ridiculous if you can book on the phone but not online- and you can't use the vouchers?! We might book a weekend away during the year. Just to note we got bargain flights to France via Ryanair- 500 euro for 4 including 2 x 20kg checked in bags. Bordeaux too which tends to be an expensive enough flight

SusanC10

Still no Flights with AL after July 21st. Tried several EU destinations as test.