Aer Lingus Fleet/Routes Discussion

NH2013 wrote: »

Well the 28th of April will mark 60 years since Aer Lingus first navigated across the Atlantic with their Lockheed Constellations on Arpil 28th 1958, it would be very fitting to mark the anniversary with a retro livery paying homage to their history and heritage. Certainly an achievement worth commemorating, not may airlines today have that sort of history or heritage or level of experience as Aer Lingus so it'd be nice to see something to mark the occasion.

Whether the current Aer Lingus team are even aware of this though I wouldn't know, their 80th Anniversary in 2016 wasn't marked by any fan fair under the current management, apparently in a bid for people to think of the airline as young and hip. Nice bit of publicity for them if they did do some sort of social media event around the occasion.

The April issue of Cara has a feature on it and a specially designed front cover to celebrate. Not sure if anything else planned and highly doubt a special livery but but at least they're aware and will be marking the occasion somehow.

The livery is still incredibly popular, both in Ireland and around the world. There are aspects of the design that need modernising, the way the cheat line and window stripe begins so abruptly being the most obvious but the overall 'Green Top' concept works well and continues to stand out from the crowd for all the right reasons. 

Many airlines have made a mess of their livery in recent years and if someone at Aer Lingus head office suddenly thinks a new livery is a good idea, there's a strong possibility that they'd end up going down the same route, believing the hype fed to them by some design agency and getting a livery that could be done in 5 minutes on MS Paint! 

With regards to the rugby livery, it's not in any way elegant but it's eye catching and fun. It's nice to see something different in the fleet and it does the job of supporting their role in the sponsorship of Irish Rugby which has been a huge success for the airline since it started. A few adjustments and it could have potential but not sure it's worthy of a fleet wide corporate livery;

http://www.airline-empires.com/index.php?/gallery/image/16982-aer-lingus-airbus-a350-900/

It looks half decent with the players removed and the colours toned down.

I think cliched images of Ireland on the side of the aircraft is a little too "90s Aer Lingus" for the airline it is today. 

Aer Lingus is marketing itself as the Irish airline at home but an international airline abroad. The rugby sponsorship was actually about reinforcing their Irish identity at home while expansion in North America is very much marketed as using Ireland as a European gateway. 

The aerlingus.com days are long gone thankfully, it worked when airline websites were relatively new but these days everyone knows how to book online. Most airlines are removing their websites from liveries, Lufty for example.

When does the full summer schedule kick in?
Will be impressive watching all the green birds heading over the North Atlantic on flightradar24

I believe they are ‘training’ more cabin manager during April. Needed I presume for the extra TA routes they are embarking on.

I flew on 2 757 last week, one was OK but dated but the other was shocking, seat was very worn and uncomfortable, tables were cracked where you latch them, general interior looked worn and entertainment system only picked up a small number of movies (unlike neighbouring screens and reboot didn't fix).

Cabin Managers are higher up the chain than seniors and operate on the a330's.

kkapp wrote: »

Cabin Managers are higher up the chain than seniors and operate on the a330's.

Cabin managers also operate EU routes, easy to spot the cabin managers have the silver name badges and not black