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

New seats are only half the issue, pitch on the new A320s is the other half.

I think BA also allow you to bring a 23kg checked where as EI allow you to check a 10kg or pay a tenner to carry it onboard.

I completely disagree. The new Ryanair seats are awful, they're by far the worse seat of any airline I've been on. I'm about 180 cm and can't put my head back at all without hitting the hard plastic top of the seat. The old Ryanair seats are fine.

The new EI seats are definitely a significant dowgrade but they're still a lot better than the Ryanair ones.

I quite like the seats that SAS use. They're slim but are still fairly comfortable.

And thats your right on an Internet forum . I'm 188 tall and FR new seating was perfect for me even down to Gran Canaria a good long run . EI even on LHR-DUB was an exercise in crap seats and an aching back

Other plane on the way back, thank god

Maybe this is all a cunning plan to reduce the amount we fly, and thus emissions 😀

Not sure I’d go that far! Booking the 321LR rotations to/from LHR and elsewhere is becoming more and more attractive though….

I suppose the question is whether this deters people from booking EI and whether it's costing them business or revenue. I've rarely heard anyone complain in the moment and I suspect that most passengers don't think at all about the issues that preoccupy a couple of dozen regular posters here and elsewhere.

I think for your average bucket and spade folks taking a few flights a year, it is fine to use the South gates. And in my experience they tend to keep the important business flights off the main pier in T2 and shove the others elsewhere. I too hate the south gates. I used them going to Nantes for the rugby earlier this year and was fine with it on that occasion. A walkway would be far more amenable than the bus.

I don't mind the Regional's having the bus around to the hangers. Because when they push, they are on 28R in a couple of minutes and seem to have the boarding process much improved. It's quite a long taxi from T2 to 28R!

The new FCO schedule from 24 May-26 October

Ex DUB 06:20, 10:25, 15:40

Ex FCO 07:30. 11:10, 15:10

A lot more talk of this the past few days. The first XLR MSN 11348 is on the final assembly line which is supposedly an EI frame.

Any update on EI rejoining oneworld properly, they're already part of the transatlantic JV with BA and AA

I've heard there's a lower seat count with a mid galley and lavs on the XLR .

Edit: if you think about it from a flexibility point of view, some or all of the LRs can have the ACTs removed if necessary and be re-configured in short haul config once the XLRs arrive, that might have been the reasoning for not fitting them with the mid galleys and lavs in the first place.

Yeah Ryanair far better, far too much messing around with aer lingus from Dublin

The lower the seat count, the further you can send them in fairness. Depends on what routes they have in mind...keep a few high density LRs for SNN-BOS/JFK, DUB-BDL....use the XLRs on the other current LR routes and MSP....reconfigure 3 or 4 LRs to short haul and have them make € on high density short haul routes like the A321 CEOs used to (ACE, FCO etc).

how were aer lingus not run out of manchester, the way ryanair would run out new entrants to dublin? other airlines not being as brutal as ryanair I imagine?

Left soon after, the pics look worse than it was!

For christmas, 2x A330 rotations to JFK (EI105/4 and EI107/6) plus one A321LR rotation (EI109/8)

Also an A321LR daily to EWR.

https://x.com/rschuur_aero/status/1738193275129840090?s=20

First customer XLR on the final assembly line and likely to be EI's.

that simplyflying article mentioned that the XLR will likely replace the a330 on the dever and minneapolis route, when they become available. Is that likely to be true?

was just thining woud they go daily with the xlr, rather than four times a week with the 330

Not a chance for Denver, it’ll require a crew rest for that! Think MSP has already been confirmed tho.