Aer Lingus Fleet/Routes Discussion

goingnowhere wrote: »

Could be a short haul gig equally

Potentially, but EI121 to Orlando hasn't taken off yet and was due nearly an hour ago, so if anything I'd wager it's for this.

Three wide-body hire-ins today from what I seen on the ramp

Locker10a wrote: »

Im sure business class pax would be either offered an alternative, or an economy seat with a refund. 
Im sure the vast majority of business passengers would be happy to jet get to their destination and not have their flight cancelled.

Downgrade compensation is a minimum of 75% of the fare.

Well DUZ is back flying so its now its just LAX

Lot of delays on the ramp in Dublin not helping due lack of gates or aircraft blocking others getting to gate

Ace2007 wrote: »

When you say DUZ is back flying - is that the name of the plane?

All Aer Lingus planes are registered as EI-___, in this case EI-DUZ, so this specific plane is back in action now. These are regulatory registrations.

Aer Lingus also ‘name’ their planes after saints, in this case EI-DUZ is St Aoife

Nothing 'broke down'

Multiple aircraft damaged due unforeseen events

mikel97 wrote: »

I was reading here that lots of their planes are grounded coz they broke down? What are the letters for? I taught it was all numbers

The problems on Transatlantic seem to be mainly due to bad luck but the short haul for May/June/July has been affected by tech issues as was reported for the same period last year. The following is a list of cases where the flights out from IRL went OK but the return flights were cancelled. In many cases the aircraft was subsequently flown home empty. The format is Date/Reg/Airport

May
09 DVL Belfast City
13 DEL AMS
16 DEL LHR
16 DEE Geneva
29 DEE MAD
29 DEK Faro

June
07 CPG (A321) Tenerife (delayed overnight)
19 DEB LHR
20 DES Bologna
22 DEE Berlin (delayed overnight) but it is not known if it was a tech, weather or crew issue.
28 DEE Geneva

July
06 CVA Berlin (delayed overnight)
07 DVK SNN
08 FNJ Venice (delayed overnight)
13 GAL Vienna (delayed overnight)
16 FNJ Berlin (delayed overnight) but it is not known if it was a tech or crew issue.
25 CVC Paris CDG

There were also a goodly number of other cancellations. For example, a couple of weeks ago an aircraft became disabled on the runway at Gatwick for hours after landing. Perhaps someone can explain why Aer Lingus cancelled 5 flights rather than operate them later into the early hours as FR did.

All of these occurrences must be costing a few bob (and a lot of work re-booking affected passengers during a period when the flights are, presumably, already well booked with not many spare seats)

Feel free to rubbish this (like some here last year:)) if you have more or better facts/information but I feel sure that Aer Lingus would not allow a website (http://www.thelingussource.com/) to continually report information if it was false.

There were also a goodly number of other cancellations. For example, a couple of weeks ago an aircraft became disabled on the runway at Gatwick for hours after landing. Perhaps someone can explain why Aer Lingus cancelled 5 flights rather than operate them later into the early hours as FR did.

Because its highly likely passengers were moved to LHR flights or other LGW flights.

For Berlin you have to be on the runway at 2300 local otherwise you better have an excuse (medical flight etc), if the EI338 lands after 2230 its staying the night, come very close twice at TXL and SXF to staying the night.

You see a clear pattern, arrives late, stays the night, arrives on time, comes home.

Operations department failing here, if they were all caused by delays to outbound. Not really acceptable when there are simple solutions available.

All of these occurrences must be costing a few bob (and a lot of work re-booking affected passengers during a period when the flights are, presumably, already well booked with not many spare seats)

In most cases overnight night delays are operated by the same aircraft the following day. So largely hotel and a few meal vouchers in terms of cost.

In most cases overnight night delays are operated by the same aircraft the following day. So largely hotel and a few meal vouchers in terms of cost.

I'd find it very strange if these aircraft spend the whole day flying around with no issue and suddenly, on the last sector of the day, go tech....

Noted but 11 of the incidents were straight cancellations.

EI rostering is notoriously bad. It wouldn't be uncommon for them to dispatch a flight knowing the crew can't return due to exceed night hours etc.

That's unbelievable. I hope none of the "smarts" are watching this channel:).

Mebuntu wrote: »

Noted but 11 of the incidents were straight cancellations

Every airline is going to have its share of cancellations, particularly when airline schedules reach peak frequency for a whole variety of reasons.

In fact the same fate happens all transport companies - bus, rail or air. It's a fact of life within the industry.

It's never good, but in the context of the overall number of flights operated over that entire period (over 200 short haul flights a day by Aer Lingus mainline), it's still a small number.