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

EI confirms BHD-LHR ceases end of Mar 23 (currently being operated by BA), as the airline has been unable to find a resolution to Brexit related issues.

Taken from Twitter

Oh god "Doubled Increase" what the hell

Malaga is a Dublin based aircraft so doesn’t affect the AMS. On a Wednesday Faro is operated by a Dublin based aircraft so doesn’t affect AMS on Wednesday. But the other days yes so not completely flat. Also LHR is planned to move to A320NEO so net increase of 7% available seats. Not a major increase sadly but still in the right direction.

When was the last repaint? Not counting new or secondhand planes joining the fleet. Must be nearly 3 years ago.

No commercial airline cares about any airport

They’re all just in it for profit (as they have to be)

Ei Dec was I think I flew on it to lanzarote then it flew to snn to get repainted that was a couple of weeks before lockdown

Could there have been any scope for the UK branch of Emerald to take over the route like with the Aer Lingus regional flights out of Belfast?

They don't, but it really seemed that post-Covid they didn't bother with Cork anyway. Ryanair relaunched their entire pre-Covid route network but Aer Lingus didn't bother, and they basically haven't lifted a single finger since.

Ryanair are filling planes out of Cork so theres got to be some profit had by AL on some routes.

Aer Lingus is very largely a Dublin-focused airline and, unless there is more money to be made somewhere else, Dublin is going to be its priority. Ryanair has a completely different model of operation, with a complex and diverse web of routes all over Europe, served from multiple bases. I would suggest that Cork is just another small/medium-sized city that it serves, rather than somewhere that Ryanair is particularly devoted to.

Suprised Ryanair are still commercially running the kerry-dublin route, surely they aren't making any money from it?

It seems the entire reason for the cold spell we have experienced was due to the pattern of the jet streams in the upper atmosphere.

Usually they are blowing eastwards from US to here, over the last few weeks they have been much further south and therefore of no benefit to planes heading eastwards and especially to make up time.

They are back on their usual trajectory now so it will be interesting to see will their timing improve.

If 2 weekly services are something to celebrate we really are at the bottom of the barrel. EI's schedule is something to be ignored in comparison to FR's expansion.

My J seat from IAD yesterday was missing a shoulder strap (not sure how it got to DC without it), but basically until engineering came and installed a new one I'd have had to get off (full flight), any idea why that's a hard rule for J seats when otherwise it's the same as a Y seat with the lap belt (that worked)? Captain seemed like a reasonable guy but obviously he has to follow policy (my Plan B was to ask for the jump seat! 😁)

FA said its going back to a 330 from May too, interested to see if they keep the double daily. The FAs really really hate the 321LR.