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

There are some trip reporters who go looking for drama but Paul is definitely not one of them. He's one of the most balanced and reasonable flight reviewers out there IMHO.

Another trip reporter said they'd taken more than 400 flights and had never once been asked not to film. Requesting not to film the crew is perfectly understandable, no filming at all is not.

Maybe save someone else the trouble of finding it, here's the link:

On the filming/ photo thing. I was first on an A330 doing a short haul and took the opportunity to get a quick snap with my phone of the big A330 cabin, nice and empty with nobody in it. Hiding to the side of the galley and I checked the photo after (not in the photo) was a cabin crew.

She came flying out shouting at me, no photos allowed. You can’t take photos. No photos of the crew. And then came right up to me, saying do you know this is the Aer Lingus policy. I was like, don’t worry, just interested in aviation and was taking a photo of the empty plane. Not to worry, I have no interest in taking a photo of the crew.

It’s only on EI that I’ve come across that attitude.

In fairness the YouTuber in question did clarify the crew weren’t hostile in this situation, they simply made a firm but polite request.

The airline obviously became aware judging by his later tweets and tried to make up for things but he still decided against making a video review and it’s clearly put a dampener on this overall experience which will be clear to anyone who follows him on social media. A real shame.

I still think the implementation of the policy needs to be reviewed, other airlines have similar rules but there are nowhere near as many reports of crews being so strict and borderline confrontational about it.

Makes it even more laughable when you consider Aer Lingus regularly pays z-list celebrities to promote them!

Was unfortunate but another reviewer did just publish a review from Dub-JFK

https://youtu.be/5g1e59Gk3Rw

The strength of the reaction would make me think there has been legal issues in the past, perhaps something that got a crew member in hot water.

There are certainly people who take their time stowing their bags and generally organising themselves, more as though they are in their own home than in an aircraft with maybe 50-100 people waiting for them to finish before the queue can move.

I'm with aerlingus on the vlogging issue as the crew should have privacy when comes to there job so many people out there would try make them look bad we have all seen videos of people without the full story

Should be easy enough to make videos without any crew visible but that's relying on the cop-on of the person concerned, so it's easier to just impose a blanket ban. Then again, if no crew are in sight who is going to stop you? Also surely the blogger can use still shots mixed in with their narration so not a big deal.

EI have always been Luddites though, I well remember being told that my Nokia phone in flight mode with wired headphones was not acceptable because it was not an "MP3 player". 🙄

Is it?

Check out Sam Chui on Insta. He is in Ireland. Flew LHR to DUB and got complimentary upgrade to Biz of course. He shows a window view only.

What about passenger privacy... Surely those in the cabins have a right to expect anonymity. Is this why there is no filming etc.? Especially the wealthy folks up front.

I love the videos BTW, and think it's silly to ban them, and I've never seen crew, but I would assume an airline 'could be' blamed for not having a policy in place to ban filming/photography onboard if a passenger brought a law suit? EI could counterclaim they were fully unaware of filming if a claim was made and they had a policy in place. If there was no policy then they could held partly responsible (through arguement) through lack of policy.

That said EI crew can be very stern/cranky/sour at times so more likely that.

And do you think the repeated announcements have any impact on that at all?

I highly doubt its illegal per statute, but Aer Lingus as a business could certainly have a no filming/photography as a condition of carriage.