Aer Lingus Fleet/Routes Discussion

Karl8415 wrote: »

Absolutely,she brought me to lax back in 2000 and I can say it did not miss a heart beat for the near 11 hours, just wondering though seeing that EI own her outright would there be any argument for example to have it undergo a heavy maintenance check to prolong its service for few years once the new birds arrive and use it for a backup frame or even look to increase capacity on other routes like the canaries for example

Most frames from that era are still active, with very few A330s in total having been scrapped. However, years of the SNN stopover may have her and EI-EWR sitting at higher cycles than other A330s, and Aer Lingus has some of the highest fleet utilisation for A330s so they're probably sitting pretty high on hours too. They'll do their cost/benefit analysis but she may be coming near some major overhaul work when younger aircraft are available cheaply on lease.

ongarboy wrote: »

EI announced their new 2019 transatlantic routes to Minneapolis and Montreal in early Sep last year. While Montreal got postponed till next year does anyone know will we be expecting their 2020 new transatlantic routes announcement around the same time this year? I'm really eager to know which cities they'll select next!

Who said they'll be announcing new TA routes every year? Has it become an official annual unveiling?

alancostello wrote: »

Most frames from that era are still active, with very few A330s in total having been scrapped. However, years of the SNN stopover may have her and EI-EWR sitting at higher cycles than other A330s, and Aer Lingus has some of the highest fleet utilisation for A330s so they're probably sitting pretty high on hours too. They'll do their cost/benefit analysis but she may be coming near some major overhaul work when younger aircraft are available cheaply on lease.[/quote

Thank you for that Alan I appreciate it,I understand what your saying

joeysoap wrote: »

FR wasn’t able to track LAX to LAX today for some reason

It's after midnight and landed so shows up yesterday (Saturday)

Tracked it fine. I watched her go earlier and clicked in when she was over Greenland out of curiosity.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ei145#21168669

ohigg84 wrote: »

I really hope that when LAX is retired, she is put into a museum.
She has done worthy service for EI for over 2 decades, and is still a great aircraft!


LAX has been a fantastic asset to the EI fleet over the years!

I presume it’s owned outright. Must be making big bucks for them vs new aircraft and leasing payments

Karl8415 wrote: »

Absolutely,she brought me to lax back in 2000 and I can say it did not miss a heart beat for the near 11 hours, just wondering though seeing that EI own her outright would there be any argument for example to have it undergo a heavy maintenance check to prolong its service for few years once the new birds arrive and use it for a backup frame or even look to increase capacity on other routes like the canaries for example

It's an incredible aircraft, and it is impeccably maintained!


My family also flew on LAX to LAX in 2000, we actually went on holidays twice that year, and we also flew on a brand new EWR to LAX too!


My dad flew back from Miami on LAX earlier this year, and he was so impressed with her.


He works in flight ops, and was talking to the crew, even the crew were so impressed with LAX!

marno21 wrote: »

EI-CJX flew from Shannon to Boston last night but flew as EIN992P - no pax onboard with that callsign. It arrived in Shannon in line with the flight which is odd.

EI-CJX always causes errors on FR24 - FR24 shows it as flying with callsign EIN1HL (the standard EI135 callsign) but it did not have this callsign in reality.

Off topic but what is the history that has call signs different to flight numbers? Seems overly complicated to me but I guess there was logic?

Pete2k wrote: »

They're being evasive on twitter stating operational reasons

I'm guessing sickness as well. It can't fly with passengers if anyone gets sick on the 757

1123heavy wrote: »

To be fair i don't think many airlines would give out such info to random strangers on a public platform

A few yrs ago they gave me the same line at the time. They were a lot more specific when a CAR complaint was filed after they ignored a 261 claim. I'm sure they will be again.

And MORE disruption with the little old 737 they use to the faros from the belfast city. All cancelled today malage/faros.
Anyone get any informations?

Assuming it was 1 crew member out, that would have left them with 3. For every 50 passengers you need 1 crew, why couldn't they operate with 3 crew and allow 150 passengers on board and drastically reduce the number of affected passengers ?