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

When you go on to any airline website there is an "operated by" under the flight number when making a booking, if the operator is different. I think that is all they are required to do to inform the passenger. It is very common these days.

The covid era is over - fares are higher than before. Paying staff 90% is disgusting. I wasn’t aware of that.

Well said.

Some pilots are flying full planes across to the US and are still on 90% pay. That’s a fact. They may be new hires, but they are still on 90% of pay. Why would you bother taking a job with EI if that’s how they treat their new hires.

The engineering staff leaving is a well known issue too. Why do they allow this to happen? The downward spiral continues. I for one would prefer that the airline pays its engineers the going rate and the pilots their full salary.

We’ve got another one; EI-NSA was met by fire crews upon arrival at Heathrow this afternoon, the aircraft was inspected and followed to stand by a number of emergency vehicles.

Still at Heathrow, two hours later.

EI-DVI was at least back in the air after spending most of the day on the ground after its return to Dublin last night, albeit three hours late on the Geneva service.

EI-NSA? Nothing showing on FR24 since its arrival this afternoon and the return flight (EI169) was cancelled. In fact the aircraft was sitting in darkness at LHR when I last saw it, that was nearly 9pm.

I see it is indeed expected to do Rome in the morning but last I heard and saw it was still on the ground at Heathrow.

EI-NSA incident yesterday was live on youtube. You can watch it back here:

The landing itself is at approx 39.45 and fire engines at 46.36.

Must have been a FR glitch cause when posted last night it was reflecting an operated leg back to Dublin along with Rome to come this morning.

Neither showing on my latest check with it still in LHR

There appears to be a significant number of transatlantic flights on the Aer Lingus network cancelled over the last few days, Philadelphia twice, LAX yesterday and looks like this mornings New York flight didn’t go either, the pilots apparently on an unofficial work to rule based on the Airliners.net thread, they’re not agreeing to coming in to work on their weekends off. Far from ideal with them being down an LR as well still in Washington DC.

-LRD out of commission until Mid-October at the earliest. The tab on that one will run around $10m!!!

That I wasn't told, but I would assume Alabama.

Washington flight cancelled today aswell covid is doing its rounds again could play a factor in staff been out sick

The inbounds are only cancelled because the outbounds were cancelled the day before 😂

Not sure you meant what you said but “the pilots protesting and not working” is an unfair statement. The pilots are working their full hours and in many cases are burnt out due to the working schedules they have to work. The issue at the moment is that pilots aren’t coming in on their days off which they are entitled to do.

As the poster above has already said, goodwill is low amongst pilots due to the stall in pay talks and the return to 100% pay for some - this is something senior management need to address.

For example, the constant hire ins is a result of poor management - the fact that EI have to pay the next 10 pilots due their seniority a months higher rate salary to compensate them for each hire in highlights the dysfunction going on at the moment.

Balked landing followed by a fu**ed up go around resulting in a tail strike in IAD is the short story on it! The thing is fuc**d by all accounts! Might see her home in 6 weeks or so