Aer Lingus Fleet/ Routes Discussion Pt 2 (ALL possible routes included)

The slot allocations would be known before any announcement, if it is to happen.

Any ideas why Aer Lingus operated a Tallinn flight today? I’m guessing it’s a charter with the flight number EI4393 but it’s not often we see them in any of the Baltic states.

Cool, thanks! Looks like EI-DES was tasked with the mission yesterday and is doing the return this evening.

More car parts, EI have been intermittently running out of MUC/STR via Dublin

G-EILA operated its first flight under the UK reg with the call sign Green Flight. Looks like It did a go around in Dublin and then runway change.

I’m intrigued if the Manchester operation will go ahead at the current date planned or will be further pushed back, I can see the Barbados going but the US routes aren’t looking great with the US still closed.

EI's MAN operation was effectively a dead end until recently

1. If you are not a US citizen (or have the approval of the US) you cannot fly
2. As EI didn't have its UK AOC it could not sell tickets to US origin traffic, they got this recently, hence the test flights under the AOC

So they can now sell tickets to all comers but are still blocked from half the market as US won't allow EU+UK passengers who are not US citizens, but do allow travel from a whole pile of places with much worse COVID situations

The only problem is, while they have supposedly received permission to sell to US customers, they still haven’t opened reservations! Either there’s more issues to iron out with authorities or it’s pure incompetence by Aer Lingus.

If you attempt to book a flight to Manchester from the US, all that will be offered is flights via Dublin. If you try from Manchester, the flights are available but a disclaimer appears explaining flights are still only available to UK originating passengers.

So Aer Lingus UK is still essentially blocked from selling flights out of Manchester to anyone who can actually make use of them; UK originating passengers are blocked from entering without prior authorisation, and the US originating passengers are blocked because of government red tape or an Aer Lingus mistake.

Looks like G-EILA has actually been given a wash and some replacement engine cowlings.

https://flic.kr/p/2miTAQ1

Shame the US routes have been pushed back even further, hopefully Barbados goes ahead as planned. It's currently on the UK green list but is at risk of going amber.

Can you link the picture?

You may be correct -comparison with older images suggests the Irish registration is now slightly further aft than it was originally.