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Aer Lingus Fleet/Routes Discussion

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  • #3512
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Van.Bosch wrote: »
    Also an interesting turn of phrase from SK in that Seattle, Denver and Minneapolis “should be” competing for their business.

    Is that a negotiation tactic?

    Also surprised Texas wasn’t referenced.
    Maybe EI are gonna troll us and announce MSP rather than SEA!!!


  • #3513
    A319er
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭A319er


    Hope a codeshare is announced too, e.g. AS as DL not a realistic option, I can see why oneworld isn't a priotity,


  • #3514
    kona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,525 ✭✭✭kona


    Hopefully its las.


  • #3515
    Jamie2k9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,845 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    A319er wrote: »
    Hope a codeshare is announced too, e.g. AS as DL not a realistic option, I can see why oneworld isn't a priotity,

    Prob interline like with WJ.


  • #3516
    billie1b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭billie1b


    Dubai! :D:D


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  • #3517
    goingnowhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,382 ✭✭✭goingnowhere


    A319er wrote: »
    Hope a codeshare is announced too, e.g. AS as DL not a realistic option, I can see why oneworld isn't a priotity,

    EI already has eticketing and interlining with Alaska, and since Alaska bought Virgin America they are now the West Coast version of JetBlue really


  • #3518
    J.pilkington
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭J.pilkington


    And Seattle it is. Great news for all of us working for Seattle / Washington hq’d companies (Amazon, Microsoft, Expedia etc and indirectly Boeing - leasing companies). Lovely part of the US too so huge tourist potential.

    I won’t miss the BA LHR flights that’s for sure!


  • #3519
    California Dreamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭California Dreamer


    https://blog.aerlingus.com/seamless-seattle/


  • #3520
    Van.Bosch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Van.Bosch


    4 times a week seems a good start.


  • #3521
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,490 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    EI99 DUB-SEA 15:50-17:35
    EI98 SEA-DUB 19:20-12:35


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  • #3522
    duskyjoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 643 ✭✭✭duskyjoe


    Well done Aer Lingus .....ballsy move SEA route as against the top up of other routes. I think this a serious watershed and hope they strike gold on this route. Can’t wait to visit Seattle and it’s surrounds. A beautiful part of the world and if your even bolder Alaska and it’s surrounds is just a quick connection.


  • #3523
    goingnowhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,382 ✭✭✭goingnowhere


    Happy days, no more LHR pain, no more queues in ORD, no more JetBlue from JFK or BOS

    Good timings also, get a decent days work done before coming back


  • #3524
    California Dreamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭California Dreamer


    Whats the talk about EI taking QR A330s?


  • #3525
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,870 ✭ [Deleted User]


    California Dreamer wrote: »
    Whats the talk about EI taking QR A330s?

    It’s purely talk, I said it was Seattle and an ex Air Berlin 330 and from there it went to naming airlines with similar engine types as Aer Lingus.


  • #3526
    kevinandrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭kevinandrew


    Interesting change of flight number choice, all Aer Lingus mainline flights use three digit numbers (apart from the Belfast base) but this new Seattle service breaks tradition with EI99 and EI98 instead of the usual transatlantic flight number.


  • #3527
    alancostello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭alancostello


    kevinandrew wrote: »
    Interesting change of flight number choice, all Aer Lingus mainline flights use three digit numbers (apart from the Belfast base) but this new Seattle service breaks tradition with EI99 and EI98 instead of the usual transatlantic flight number.

    I wonder are there many EI1xx flight numbers left? I'd imagine most are in use or have been used and they don't want to recycle.


  • #3528
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    That occurred to me too.
    98/99 SEA

    102-111 JFK

    (Possible extra JFK at a later stage?
    EI-113/112, 115/114 or 117/116)

    119/118 IAD

    121/120 MCO

    122-125 ORD

    129/128 YYZ

    130/131 BDL

    134-139 BOS

    141/140 MIA

    145/144 LAX

    147/146 SFO

    Then short haul flights begin with LHR-DUB at 149,151/152 etc
    I had to look up a couple of those newer ones!


  • #3529
    alancostello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭alancostello


    Tenger wrote: »
    That occurred to me too.
    98/99 SEA

    102-111 JFK

    (Possible extra JFK at a later stage?)

    119/118 IAD

    121/120 MCO

    122-125 ORD

    129/128 YYZ

    130/131 BDL

    134-139 BOS

    141/140 MIA

    145/144 LAX

    147/146 SFO

    Then short haul flights begin with LHR-DUB at 149,151/152 etc

    I had to look up a couple of those!

    EI102/103 was the daytime JFK/DUB on the 757, not currently in use.

    Also:

    EI100/101 EWR
    EI112/113 was JFK/SNN
    EI114/115 will be DUB/PHL
    EI116/117 was BOS/SNN
    EI118/119 was BWI/SNN, now DUB/IAD
    EI126/127 was a third DUB/ORD rotation
    EI132/133 was a third BOS/DUB

    EI142/143 seem the be the only free ones? Anyone remember what Dubai was?


  • #3530
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    alancostello wrote: »
    EI102/103 was the daytime JFK/DUB on the 757, not currently in use.

    Also:

    EI100/101 EWR
    EI112/113 was JFK/SNN
    EI114/115 will be DUB/PHL
    EI116/117 was BOS/SNN
    EI118/119 was BWI/SNN, now DUB/IAD
    EI126/127 was a third DUB/ORD rotation
    EI132/133 was a third BOS/DUB

    EI142/143 seem the be the only free ones? Anyone remember what Dubai was?
    Oops! Completely forgot about EWR, and PHL!
    I included 102/103 as I’m guessing it will return with the A321LRs.
    I can’t recall the 3rd rotation from Dublin to either BOS or DUB.
    Didn’t realize SNN had also used 113/112 and 117/116, I thought those routes were only ever 111/110 and 135/134 respectively.


  • #3531
    alancostello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭alancostello


    Tenger wrote: »
    Oops! Completely forgot about EWR, and PHL!
    I included 102/103 as I’m guessing it will return with the A321LRs.
    I can’t recall the 3rd rotation from Dublin to either BOS or DUB.
    Didn’t realize SNN had also used 113/112 and 117/116, I thought those routes were only ever 111/110 and 135/134 respectively.


    EI126/127 only operated three weekly during Summer 2009
    https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/airlineroute/262411/aerlingus-increase-chicago-in-summer-09/

    EI132/133 was based on this article, and remnants around the web, it may not have been a third rotation, but was a rotation once upon a time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Logan_Airport_runway_incursion

    It looks like 111/110/135/134 were actually DUB-SNN-USA routes pre Open Skies, I only read the tail end of the routing


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  • #3532
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,773 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    kevinandrew wrote: »
    Interesting change of flight number choice, all Aer Lingus mainline flights use three digit numbers (apart from the Belfast base) but this new Seattle service breaks tradition with EI99 and EI98 instead of the usual transatlantic flight number.

    Actually it’s not a break at all.

    EI 98/99 was used for the Belfast-Shannon-New York service from way back!


  • #3533
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    LXFlyer wrote: »
    Actually it’s not a break at all.

    EI 98/99 was used for the Belfast-Shannon-New York service from way back!
    God, that is waay back!
    Someone might bring up the Dublin to Montreal route next!


  • #3534
    alancostello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭alancostello


    Tenger wrote: »
    God, that is waay back!
    Someone might bring up the Dublin to Montreal route next!

    What was the Madrid to Washington DC flight number actually?


  • #3535
    MoeJay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭MoeJay


    alancostello wrote: »
    What was the Madrid to Washington DC flight number actually?

    That was 6963/6962 I think

    143/142 was SNN-LAX
    107/106 was the original EWR number

    All the 09x flights were DUB-SNN-DUB as far as I remember


  • #3536
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,773 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    Tenger wrote: »
    God, that is waay back!
    Someone might bring up the Dublin to Montreal route next!

    Well Garrett Fitzgerald’s flight number sequencing (it was he that came up with it) certainly has stood the test of time!

    I’ll have a look in my timetable archive for Montreal!


  • #3537
    HTCOne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 931 ✭✭✭HTCOne


    Was the Montreal flight not just a fuel stop between ORD with 5th freedom?


  • #3538
    IrishYamm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭IrishYamm


    Has the CEO announced any other a330 for the Aer Lingus fleet apart from the one which was meant to arrive this month? With 12 a330 and 4 757 only how is the fleet enough for this new route remembering that one a330 will be flying IAD 4x weekly?


  • #3539
    Jamie2k9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,845 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    IrishYamm wrote: »
    Has the CEO announced any other a330 for the Aer Lingus fleet apart from the one which was meant to arrive this month? With 12 a330 and 4 757 only how is the fleet enough for this new route remembering that one a330 will be flying IAD 4x weekly?

    There will be another aircraft joining. He implied the deal will be wrapped up in a few weeks.


  • #3540
    California Dreamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,693 ✭✭✭California Dreamer


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    There will be another aircraft joining. He implied the deal will be wrapped up in a few weeks.

    This is the ex-QR bird?


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  • #3541
    Van.Bosch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Van.Bosch


    California Dreamer wrote: »
    This is the ex-QR bird?

    Nothing has been confirmed.

    From a few posts I’ve seen, people seem to think this is a Ballsy move or punt by EI. I can’t imagine them taking a punt, they strike me as very conservative, if launching this route 4x week, I would guess they know the demand is there.


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