![]() ![]() I had a throne seat booked and at check in was given a different seat and told the throne seat was booked by someone else, despite me showing them my booking. Their twitter account is fairly responsive though. Have to call their dreadful call center, which takes an average of 45 minutes on hold and you're lucky if the operator has a clue what to do without your guidance. You can't change anything online once you've booked it, including changing seats. I'm a Dublin based, frequent Aer Lingus transatlantic flier.Īll four of my transatlantic flights with Aer Lingus in the last two months have included announcements that you're not allowed to film/photo the crew or their operational procedures. Previously the plan was for Shannon to be cut in favor of Manchester, but it seems like the airline is keeping all three transatlantic gateways around. The reason for the cutbacks in Dublin and Manchester are because Aer Lingus decided to keep its Shannon transatlantic flights, which were previously supposed to be cut I guess the airline sees sufficient demand without much competition, so decided this was the best use of resourcesĪer Lingus business class on the A321LR Bottom lineĪer Lingus has revealed its transatlantic summer 2022 schedule, and with this, we’ll see the airline operate transatlantic flights out of Dublin, Manchester, and Shannon.Aer Lingus is scaling back Manchester growth before transatlantic flights to the United States even launch, as the airline was supposed to fly from Manchester to Boston as of the summer of 2022, but that’s not happening anymore while it’s a long shot, maybe American plans on operating this route instead, given the JetBlue alliance?. ![]() Aer Lingus is scaling back growth out of Dublin in the summer of 2022 the airline won’t fly to Miami (MIA), won’t resume flights to Hartford (BDL) or Minneapolis (MSP), and won’t launch flights to Montreal (YUL), which was a destination announced pre-pandemic.With that in mind, here’s what surprises me: In 2020, Aer Lingus announced plans to cut transatlantic flights out of Shannon, and instead launch transatlantic flights out of Manchester.Aer Lingus has joined the oneworld transatlantic joint venture, meaning that the airline will coordinate fares and schedules with American, British Airways, Finnair, and Iberia.There are several surprises with Aer Lingus’ summer 2022 schedule, which can presumably be attributed to a couple of factors: Lastly, Aer Lingus will be bringing back transatlantic flights out of Shannon (SNN), and the airline will offer service to the following destinations:Īer Lingus Airbus A321LR What’s interesting about Aer Lingus’ upcoming schedule The carrier’s biggest hub is in Dublin (DUB), and from there the airline will be flying to the following transatlantic destinations:Īer Lingus is also in the process of setting up a hub out of Manchester (MAN), and as part of that the airline will be operating flights to the following transatlantic destinations: What’s interesting about Aer Lingus’ upcoming scheduleĪer Lingus’ transatlantic flights next summerĪer Lingus has revealed its summer 2022 transatlantic schedule, and it contains flights out of three European gateways.Aer Lingus’ transatlantic flights next summer.This isn’t the first rumor I’ve heard about this route, and I’m inclined to believe this will happen. While no timeline has been announced yet, my guess is that this route would launch in summer. Irish Central reports that Aer Lingus will shortly be announcing flights between Dublin and Denver. It sounds like we might see some more growth from Aer Lingus in the short term. They do have two more A330s joining their fleet this year, and they’ll also be taking delivery of some A321LRs in 2019, which should really help them with their transatlantic route network at that point (they can use those almost exclusively between Ireland and the East Coast, opening up their A330s to operate longer flights). In the short term I figured the airline was nearly maxed out on expansion. The airline presently has a longhaul fleet consisting of 12 A330s and four 757s (which they’re leasing). In 2014 Aer Lingus added flights to Toronto and San Francisco.In 2015 Aer Lingus added frequencies to New York and San Francisco, and added a new route to Washington Dulles.In 2016 Aer Lingus added flights to Los Angeles, Hartford, and Newark.In September Aer Lingus added flights to Miami.In March 2018 Aer Lingus is adding flights to Philadelphia.In May 2018 Aer Lingus is adding flights to Seattle.Aer Lingus has been growing their US route network significantly the past few years, in a steady but consistent way:
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