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Aer Lingus Fleet/Routes Discussion

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  • #6692
    kevinandrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭kevinandrew


    Bussywussy wrote: »
    Its 16/168 config

    So 184 which is a fairly substantial increase over the 757 and a good bit more TAP Air Portugal’s A321LR which has 171 seats in total.


  • #6693
    tnegun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭tnegun


    Flew on GEY again what a bucket, feedback on the PA, IFE rebooting all over the place, no wifi, it came back on as we landed ??, sat in the row immediately behind business and the layout means when the cart is push through the curtain it hits your knees and no air vents overhead WTF!! two passengers on oxygen due to the heat on board awful aircraft.


  • #6694
    Locker10a
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,267 Mod ✭✭✭✭Locker10a


    tnegun wrote: »
    Flew on GEY again what a bucket, feedback on the PA, IFE rebooting all over the place, no wifi, it came back on as we landed ??, sat in the row immediately behind business and the layout means when the cart is push through the curtain it hits your knees and no air vents overhead WTF!! two passengers on oxygen due to the heat on board awful aircraft.


    Why not feed this back to EI via a voice of the guest survey or via a formal complaint on their website so these issues are formally logged


  • #6695
    California Dreamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭California Dreamer


    Locker10a wrote: »
    Why not feed this back to EI via a voice of the guest survey or via a formal complaint on their website so these issues are formally logged

    You will be thanked for your feedback. It will be passed to the department in charge. Then NOSFG will be given....(not one single......)


  • #6696
    kevinandrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭kevinandrew


    Qatar obviously treated the aircraft like a dog, it definitely made its money on the less glamorous routes on their network if you know what I mean. Most of Aer Lingus' own A332s are older than this aircraft but are in far superior condition cabin wise, just goes to show these middle eastern carriers may have the glitz and glamour of on board suites and lounges but their day to day upkeep is often shoddy. 

    As for the problems listed, short of ripping the entire cabin out and starting again I doubt there's much more they can do, everything else will be quick fixes. I doubt the planned business class refit later this year will extend to anything else.


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  • #6697
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    kevinandrew wrote: »
    So 184 which is a fairly substantial increase over the 757 and a good bit more TAP Air Portugal’s A321LR which has 171 seats in total.
    TAP do have a 3 class config on theirs;
    16/48/107

    OPO-EWR on June 1st was the first TA flight for the A321LR


  • #6698
    john boye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,746 ✭✭✭john boye


    Tenger wrote: »
    OPO-EWR on June 1st was the first TA flight for the A321LR

    I think Air Transat beat them to it a couple of weeks before.


  • #6699
    Van.Bosch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Van.Bosch


    Not sure if mentioned but I see the A32LR is scheduled To do the 730 to LHR from 1st November.


  • #6700
    Shamrockj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭Shamrockj


    EI-GCF diverted to Calgary with a sick passenger on its way from SFO to DUB


  • #6701
    tnegun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭tnegun


    Locker10a wrote: »
    Why not feed this back to EI via a voice of the guest survey or via a formal complaint on their website so these issues are formally logged


    I did, email address for anyone else is guestservices@aerlingus.com. I got a response quickly to say they were looking into it, but I've complained to them re this aircraft before and not much has changed.


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  • #6702
    tnegun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭tnegun


    kevinandrew wrote: »
    Qatar obviously treated the aircraft like a dog, it definitely made its money on the less glamorous routes on their network if you know what I mean. Most of Aer Lingus' own A332s are older than this aircraft but are in far superior condition cabin wise, just goes to show these middle eastern carriers may have the glitz and glamour of on board suites and lounges but their day to day upkeep is often shoddy.

    As for the problems listed, short of ripping the entire cabin out and starting again I doubt there's much more they can do, everything else will be quick fixes. I doubt the planned business class refit later this year will extend to anything else.


    From speaking with crew they believe they're going to rip out and replace the galleys and convert to the same as the other 330s as this aircraft is short on seats but that it was supposed to happen over the winter.


  • #6703
    Locker10a
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,267 Mod ✭✭✭✭Locker10a


    California Dreamer wrote: »
    You will be thanked for your feedback. It will be passed to the department in charge. Then NOSFG will be given....(not one single......)

    It will however be folded into a pile of statistics which are analysed and used to asses what parts of the service need improvement.


  • #6704
    kevinandrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭kevinandrew


    tnegun wrote: »
    kevinandrew wrote: »
    Qatar obviously treated the aircraft like a dog, it definitely made its money on the less glamorous routes on their network if you know what I mean. Most of Aer Lingus' own A332s are older than this aircraft but are in far superior condition cabin wise, just goes to show these middle eastern carriers may have the glitz and glamour of on board suites and lounges but their day to day upkeep is often shoddy.

    As for the problems listed, short of ripping the entire cabin out and starting again I doubt there's much more they can do, everything else will be quick fixes. I doubt the planned business class refit later this year will extend to anything else.


    From speaking with crew they believe they're going to rip out and replace the galleys and convert to the same as the other 330s as this aircraft is short on seats but that it was supposed to happen over the winter.

    So maybe there’s hope for it yet!


  • #6705
    California Dreamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭California Dreamer


    Locker10a wrote: »
    It will however be folded into a pile of statistics which are analysed and used to asses what parts of the service need improvement.

    What do you think the percentage of complaints that EI get are about -GEY? Because outside of a few aerosexuals a lot would have no clue what kind of aircraft they are on let alone the configuration.


  • #6706
    Van.Bosch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Van.Bosch


    California Dreamer wrote: »
    What do you think the percentage of complaints that EI get are about -GEY? Because outside of a few aerosexuals a lot would have no clue what kind of aircraft they are on let alone the configuration.

    I complained (business class) and got €100 voucher


  • #6707
    California Dreamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭California Dreamer


    Van.Bosch wrote: »
    I complained (business class) and got €100 voucher

    Couple of years back I complained about the crew in business. He looked hungover as hell and the food was slapped on the plate. Got a €200 voucher.


  • #6708
    ongarboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    Flew DUB to MIA on EI and back this past fortnight and it seemed to be at 100% passenger loading both ways. Good to see this route doing well. From casual observation guesstimate, it seemed majority of passengers were not Irish so possibly a lot of transit passengers?


  • #6709
    tnegun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭tnegun


    Any transatlantic I've flown on with EI has always had a large amount of transit passengers I'd say 50% on some you can get an idea by the number turning off before passport control. Dublin preclearence serves them well speaking of which took me and hour and 15 to get through it on Thursday. The queue went up the escalator s and down towards the 400 gates and turned back towards duty free with lots of skipping.


  • #6710
    Stephen Strange
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭Stephen Strange


    tnegun wrote: »
    Any transatlantic I've flown on with EI has always had a large amount of transit passengers I'd say 50% on some you can get an idea by the number turning off before passport control. Dublin preclearence serves them well speaking of which took me and hour and 15 to get through it on Thursday. The queue went up the escalator s and down towards the 400 gates and turned back towards duty free with lots of skipping.

    It depends on the time of year. During summer there are a lot less transit pax compared to winter in my experience.


  • #6711
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Last time I saw it referred to it by EI was as part of full year results about 2-3 years ago.
    40% transit pax was the figure I believe.


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  • #6712
    Lapmo_Dancer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭Lapmo_Dancer


    NH2013 wrote: »
    A sick pilot apparently in the end according to the ATC playback.

    Fake news.


  • #6713
    Nijmegen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    California Dreamer wrote: »
    What do you think the percentage of complaints that EI get are about -GEY? Because outside of a few aerosexuals a lot would have no clue what kind of aircraft they are on let alone the configuration.

    I'd say people flying up the front are most likely to be the aerosexuals, and also drive the profits. Tho that being said on MCO, MIA, JFK and IAD where they rotate her I guess they don't really have middle eastern standard competition.


  • #6714
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Shamrockj wrote: »
    EI-GCF diverted to Calgary with a sick passenger on its way from SFO to DUB
    Makes sense.
    My understanding is that EI require 3 flight crew due the length of the sector
    Assuming a pilot was ill and they diverted, the remaining 2 couldnt carry on without a rest period. As they would already have operated for several hours. And thats before whatever time the diversion and medical offload took up.

    Looking at the timings involved offloading a sick customer seems more likely.


  • #6715
    tnegun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭tnegun


    I take it all back, DAA on the way home and got called to the gate before boarding seat 2G!


  • #6716
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Tenger wrote: »
    Makes sense.
    My understanding is that EI require 3 flight crew due the length of the sector
    Assuming a pilot was ill and they diverted, the remaining 2 couldnt carry on without a rest period. As they would already have operated for several hours. And thats before whatever time the diversion and medical offload took up.
    It was around 4 hours delayed fwiw.


  • #6717
    ohigg84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 557 ✭✭✭ohigg84


    Is there any particular reason why EI are routinely deploying A332's EI-LAX, DUO and DAA on the IAD route?

    I thought this route was being solely operated by GEY and sometimes EWR.


  • #6718
    tnegun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭tnegun


    It has less seating capacity that the other 330-200's right? So maybe related to that? Flight was completely full from what I saw from IAD this morning.


  • #6719
    liiga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭liiga


    Will Aerlingus A321LR have the black eyeliner around the cockpit ?


  • #6720
    VG31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭VG31


    liiga wrote: »
    Will Aerlingus A321LR have the black eyeliner around the cockpit ?

    No.

    https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/9326980


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  • #6721
    NewApproach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭NewApproach


    When flying to LCY with EI, they are operated by Citijet so depart from the T1 gates, despite EI advertising the relevant terminal as T2, correct? If you pitch up at T1 departures, will you be able to get through security there?


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