Aer Lingus has eight Airbus A321LRs on order, which will very nicely complement their existing fleet. The airline will be able to use these planes for transatlantic flights, both to add new destinations, and to replace their leased 757-200s. Unfortunately Aer Lingus experienced some delivery delays with these planes. Initially Aer Lingus was supposed to…
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Sure, it's great for business class travelers. What about economy? Not liking this trend of narrow-body aircraft on transatlantic routes
Any idea when they may start opening up business class space again on IAD-DUB? Seems they stop on 3/31/2019, even though they've opened up 4 seats on every flight before then.
They have been flying non stop from MSP using a 757 and it says "ASL Airlines for Air Lingus" when you look for availability.
that SNN-BOS route should fall into zone 4 and not zone 5 on the Aer Lingus award chart. This means award tickets in Y for 10k and (more importantly) award tickets in J for 31,250 points...
I remember there was a rumor that once the A321LR started coming online that EI might use one of the freed up A330s to start service between DEN and DUB. I still hope that happens. Has there been any more news on that?
@Nawaid Ladak - Aer Lingus fudges their charts for US routes, and Boston falls in Zone 5, despite the actual distance. I think Montreal is the only N. American route that actually falls in Zone 4 (can anyone confirm?)
@GuruJanitor; that's correct. but SNN is a full 100+ miles shorter than both DUB-YUL and DUB-BOS. We'll see what they do. I'll keep my fingers crossed for the Zone 4 though
I thought the PHL-DUB route was just going to be 321LR daily when it starts in November.
@Nawaid Ladak, well BOS-SNN currently prices out at Zone 5, so I'm not sure they'd change that.
Is anyone else having issues signing into Avios.com to book Aer Lingus awards? I was told a week plus back that Aer Lingus are unable to be booked online and still cannot log in to book awards. Would like to hear if there's anything else I can do beyond calling in to find availability/book awards?
Given the huge Irish -American in the US ,flying US -Ireland with Aer Lingus brand new aircrafts A321 LR is going to be a big hit, i bet.
@AOH A320-family aircraft (of which the A321 is a part) are more comfortable in economy than most widebodies because of the significantly wider seats.
The end of what had been one of the most attractive liveries in the industry. Replaced by a yawn-inducing paint job no doubt designed by committee.
Looked at that photo and was not impressed - haven't they just spent money on a rebrand / image overhaul? Money down the drain if you ask me.