Aerlingus AerClub/Avios

On both bookings we paid €4.99 for a "standard" seat.

thanks goingnowhere. are you saying it's not a glitch, but intentional, but not spelt out? Buying a 4.99 seat seems an easy way to get priority + 10kg bag on board when it costs more to do it properly? And I am the aerclub member, my wife isn't (though I booked for her while logged in)?

I see SuperValu have issued their August money-back vouchers and It looks like there is ZERO bonus on conversions of vouchers to Avios this time. They just get meaner and meaner with their rewards.

Don’t even start me on my AerCard redemption. My first booking is a return trip to Rhodes next month. Aer Lingus cancelled the outbound flight and offered me an alternate a day earlier, which I accepted. Paid up for 15 nights accommodation (as opposed to the 14 nights I had originally reserved) and the very next day Aer Lingus cancelled my flight home without any alternative flights, so I had to book and pay for Ryanair to get us home.

Now Aer Lingus say If I take my outbound flights then my return reward is forfeit. However if I don’t take my outbound flight they’ll reinstate my reward.

But I’ve already paid for my accommodation and I have friends travelling on the same outbound flight. So cancelling it and rebooking with Ryanair for a day later isn’t an option.

Aer Lingus are being extremely unhelpful and really couldn’t care less.

I actually hadn’t considered that, thanks. I’ll wait to see what they come back with following my latest contact with them.

The lounge is not currently open. Rumour has it that they are reopening it in September but there hasn’t been any announcement about a firm date yet, so don’t cash in your passes just yet!

I didn’t want to cancel and rebook my outbound flight, but after much argument I did manage to get Aer Lingus to reinstate one reward flight as we were only using half of our two reward flights. That means in now have three reward flights on my account for 2021, which I’ll use in early 2022.

Sept 1 was confirmed as lounge opening date in early August but since then its all gone vague again. I guess we find out Wednesday...

Looks like a mid-life upgrade for the lounge, very much in keeping with the previous style but with some changes to better align with the needs of passengers today.

https://twitter.com/AerLingus/status/1432317351064711170?s=20

Definitely appears to be more seating, new wireless charging points, order via QR code for food options and better use of the space around the bar area. The grass carpets and computer stations are gone.

As expected it's a nice space to relax before a flight but nothing spectacular.

Back to work travel from Monday week and dreading it. Anyone taken an early morning flight through T2 recently? What are the queues like. Pre COVID I would breeze through security via fast track.

I was in the T1 fast track queue around the same time on Saturday. It took about 30 minutes to get through. The normal queue appeared to actually be quicker.

Has the lounge actually opened?

The arrivals/refresh lounge was shut on Tuesday.

It’s open, seen a few pictures on social media from people using it.

Not sure about the revival lounge though, I’m guessing that will stay shut until transatlantic schedules return to something a little closer normal than what they are at present.

I was in Lufthansa Lounge in T2 Munich yesterday. They offered me a lounge pass as my flight was overbooked to Luxembourg and put me on a later one.

Really nice Lounge. Beats EI lounge in Heathrow by a long shot. I have never been to the EI lounge in Dublin.

Ive only been to Heathrow one for the last flight home(Pre Covid) so its only ever been cheese and crackers, tho id say it wasn't much more during the day.

Used the lounges in Heathrow and Dublin T2 this week, a few minor nice touches, but otherwise very much the same. There's very little of anything decent to eat at all.

I did see elsewhere online the other day that they had a reasonably decent selection of wraps along with the usual offering. It didn’t look too bad and was arguably a slightly improvement but it seems this is a luck of the draw type situation which is all too common with Aer Lingus at the moment.