Aerlingus AerClub/Avios

If it's in Dublin, email on phone should be sufficient. I think you might have issues in some European airports though. I remember in Geneva anyway, they wanted to keep the hard copy, presumably to submit to Aer Lingus for payment.

At JFK, DUB, LHR no paperwork needed, they can see the reservation details

Elsewhere print it out unless you hold qualifying status that would get you in anyway

Just curious

Do you get better deals with avios with ba over using them with aer Lingus ?

I got tier points for a flight booked with Avios

Cash+Avios earns i.e via http://www.aerlingus.com

Avios rewards portal doesn't earn i.e https://rewards.aerlingus.com/

Hmm, interesting did you get rebooked or do a same day change to an earlier flight? Flying on my first EI rewards issued ticket Thursday so will see…

So my last two flights have been reward flights with IE - and in both instances I checked-in online within 48 hours of flight time and there was no option to select my own seat. I thought this was usually an option for Aer Lingus …have they switched to automatically assigned seating for all 48h online check-ins or is it specifically because the flights are via BOI CC/frequent flyer miles?

Advantage is base economy fare class + product extras so earns whatever the original booking class was

Left my kindle on board EI-CVB in 1F last night. On the inside of the seat by my left leg so wouldn't have been immediately obvious to anyone looking. Plane has been out to Amsterdam and back this morning.

Called aer lingus Concierge líne this morning only to find they've outsourced lost and found to some outfit called WeReturnlt. No phone number to call and if they do find your item they charge a minimum of €37 to reunite you with your own property, no option to collect from the airport. No option to pass info along to specifically look in an area of the plane.

Entirely my own fault for leaving it behind but it feels like a very **** experience to have to then pay some other shower to get it back.

Any other inside track to getting it back?

How did you add your aerclub number to your ba profile?

It's an alignment across IAG. EI is moving to the same year as BA and Iberia.

Hopefully this is a step on the journey back into OneWorld next year. I just noticed that EI have numbered boarding groups at the gate to align with how OneWorld prioritise (not the old "Business/AerClub" they used to have. In Geneva I saw that the gate agent had a list of "status pax" on their monitor - something I haven't seen before.

I suspect more changes to make sure the benefits of AerClub are aligned with IAG so people don't game the system, this may well be what was behind the Credit Card fiasco as EI didn't consider the potential ramifications across IAG.

Where have you seen the numbered boarding groups? Haven't flown in 3 weeks so maybe it's a new change?

Not sure having more than two (priority+carry-on/non-priority) is a great idea. US airlines have multiple numbered boarding groups and it really slows the whole boarding process overall. Only real positive is the people on the super cheap fares end up being the ones having to check-in their carry-on. But you get that with the priority boarding setup anyway

To be fair, I think it’s supposed to be business, AerClub and status holders only and then everyone else, in an effort to avoid the priority line being longer than the regular one.

Enforcement, particularly at outstations is basically non existent so far.