Aer Lingus January sale EU 36 euro, USA 330 euro

Flights that I have been looking at to Europe have increased in price since the sale began. Another typical Aer Lingus sale then

hmmm- these super prices certainly didn't apply when I just checked out a few possibilities for a cheap getawar for travelling end of March and returning start of April:rolleyes:

From what I can make out, Aer Lingus are not that competitive on price on Transatlantic flights, compared to carriers like United and U.S Airways. Admittedly, it is probably a nicer flight on Aer Lingus (Probably better service and bigger aircraft, A330 rather than B757)

In their recent results though, Aer Lingus say they are getting high loads on their transatantic flights, and high loads means higher prices unfortunately. Put simply, if they are nearly filling their planes with their current price structures, why would they drop them.

We just booked our summer getaway to Orlando for next summer. AL were asking for €3,500.00 for two adults, two kids and another in the lap. Went with Air France in the end who code share with Delta. We paid €2,700.00. Go figure!

IMO someone has to plug the pension deficit that AL has racked up over the years, unfortunately for them it wont be us.:p

cson wrote: »

I think these Aer Lingus "Sales" are well known for what they are at this stage.

As has been said, they're achieving very high loads on T/A services so why should they start offering bargain fares if they can sell for higher? Simple economics and not a rip off by any means. Aer Lingus seem to be gearing their product towards the actual experience of flying rather than the A-B method Ryanair use.

Anyways, over on the Travel forum there's a thread where somebody sourced DUB-JFK via LHR for ~€347 return if anyone is interested.

Any chance you could share a link? I had a browse in the travel forum and could not find it...

infocal wrote: »

Ryanair please take over Aer Lingus then we can buy 99€ ticket to states....

Forget it tbh, if you ever think you'll able to fly from Dublin to JFK for 99€, unless its some extremely limited promotional fare, which I can;t see coming from Ryanair or anyone else!

Zonda999 wrote: »

Forget it tbh, if you ever think you'll able to fly from Dublin to JFK for 99€, unless its some extremely limited promotional fare, which I can;t see coming from Ryanair or anyone else!

"The Ryanair boss has made no secret of the fact he wants to set up a low-cost transatlantic carrier. Yesterday he said he hoped the venture, which would have no connection with Ryanair, would offer an economy class fare from £10 one way and would have a business/premium class with prices between £1,000 and £1,500. It would serve between eight and 10 cities in Europe and a similar number in the US including New York, California and centres such as Denver and Dallas. European bases could include London, Dublin, Frankfurt, Rome and Milan."

Fair enough it was 4 years ago and he has not been able to source the planes at the right price but the will was there to decimate AL's ripoff prices.


Ah if only Micheal ran the world ;-D

In the US you can get return flights from LA to NYC (4,000km) as low as $250 at times. Its 5000km from NYC to Dublin. So i have no reason to doubt that the flight can be provided alot cheaper.

keithclancy wrote: »

Try using this tool to search for flights.

http://matrix.itasoftware.com/

Really good, thanks ;-)

cgarrad wrote: »

TAX ;-)

10% max depending on the state.

cgarrad wrote: »

Exactly ;-)

So $275 return. Hardly breaking the bank is it? And its still much better value than Transatlantic flights.