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

Looks like it’s just 2 A320neo joining the fleet for the moment. Another 2 expected to be acquired next year.

Pity it isn’t the 6 as rumoured, looks like Aer Lingus is staying true to form with its glacial speeds of progress.

It will absolutely find its way onto SNN sooner rather than later considering two of the three daily flights are operated by Dublin based A320s.

Cork would probably have to wait until one is based there at some point.

At Dublin airport earlier waiting for a flight and overheard the Aer Lingus ground staff saying that over 12 flights have been cancelled today as pilots called in sick and there’s no sickness cover planned in and other pilots are all refusing to come in on their days off in an unofficial work to rule until their COVID pay cut is reversed. 

According to the ground staff the pilots are all super peeved with the airline and are passively trying to sabotage the operation until their pay is restored from what I could overhear, no one coming in on their days off when asked. The staff sounded quite bemused and supportive of the whole thing.

Apart from that, it was a total cluster at the airport with angry passengers everywhere, security quite quick though, busy but got through in about 20-25 minutes despite this. Inside the terminal is filthy, clearly all the cleaning staff are being redeployed to help coordinate the security queues, awful last impression of the country for any tourists leaving.

1/6th? Surely not.

Anyone now why ei deo was covering the Edinburgh flight this morning instead of the regional

Hi,

First time poster here. Two questions.

Is there a way to tell which aircraft will be used days in advance of the actual departure? For example today the aircraft used for the flight was EI-FNH. Yesterday it was EI-EAV. I'd like to know which aircraft will be used on 20th July.

Regarding the night before bag drop off, can I drop off bags for 5 different people and bring their passports with me? Or do the passengers themselves need to be in attendance when dropping off the bags?

There's no way to know without working in EI, and there are security reasons why they wouldn't be allowed tell people.

At this stage, its unlikely even EI know for something that far out.

That's not really how it works. Aircraft can have their schedule changed at short notice if there's a massive delay on an inbound flight for example.

Your theory could end up backfiring on you & you miss the flight.

Flight radar does have the aircraft it's going to use from around 10 o'clock the night before but as the others have said it can change which I have seen it change quite I few times

EI104 JFK-DUB operated by -DUZ is returning to JFK. It flew past Halifax before making a 180 towards the US. Unknown why.

Today the Seattle route returned. X5 per week.

The five day a week thing caught me out. I have to travel there next week and am connecting through Keflavik because naturally enough I have to travel on one of the days that the flight doesn't operate.

Having 2 based A333s just for a daily MCO never made sense at Manchester for the summer.

Moving the -200s to MAN seems plausible, means DUB can remain an all -300 operation but I’m still of the opinion that a 2x A321LR and 1x A330 base makes more sense in the long run with rationalised frequencies on BGI/MCO + ability to run daily JFK/BOS services which seem more successful at the moment.

Loads on MCO remain abysmal with the British school holidays still over 2 weeks away. JFK on the other hand goes out close to full more often than not which suggests BOS could do well. The US carriers, including JetBlue will be interested in MAN next summer so I expect some decisions need to be made around it’s future at Aer Lingus soon.