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

It's heavy on the premium products (J/PE/MCE) which I think they'd struggle to upsell to the crowd that'd use the route, Philly people are very much fans of NK/F9 flying.

To be fair whilst SNN is extremely seasonal in demand I’ve always heard the premium cabins do well (rich golfers). Yanks only tend to get 2 weeks off per year also so anecdotally they tend to push the boat out.

The amount of delays today is unreal what's the cause is it to do with large amount of ques or short ground staff

As above, unfortunately CTOTs left right and centre as a result of rolling delays. Don't know how EI/FR don't throw the book at the DAA. Of course the entire industry is under pressure as the current situation is too many passengers and too few resources generally, OCS also causing delays due lack of staff and wheelchair pax missing connections etc. Messy Summer ahead at DUB unfortunately, generally EI don't have a lot of additional resources to recrew either.

There was speculation of additional west coast frequency from Aug to Oct, It would be prudent to hold off on that and allow for gaps in the schedule to allow recovery as it will be needed. LAX took off after 5pm and the way its scheduled can mean days before return to scheduled service if no slack is in the schedule. It's not the summer to sweat resources as shown.

Yes - choose the AerSpace fare.

F-WWBD (A32N) due for Aer Lingus was flown from Toulouse to Chateauroux this morning. It’s commonly used as a short term storage facility, the other former Smartavia aircraft due for Aer Lingus also spent some time there before returning to Toulouse ahead of delivery.

It has an all white fuselage but the tail and engines are in Smartavia colours, this is because those elements are traditionally painted much earlier in the assembly process at Airbus.

Hope they get those brand new business class seats back from -GEY before it leaves! ;)

EWR & YYZ (more than likely -300 operated, -200s deployed elsewhere on the network)

Which NEO routes have the highest load factors?

I would imagine Washington as it’s going twice a day on the NEO this month

18 years isn't very old for an A320. It got the repaint so they were obviously expecting to get a few more years out of it, was some sort of expensive problem discovered?

I travelled to lanzarote on her the morning before she went to Shannon for repaint then covid hit

I've flown the A220 a few times, definitely a fine aircraft and one I also think would suit Aer Lingus but they seem stuck in a 'one size fits all' policy for short haul which is why they've conceded so much marketshare in recent years. It would take a seismic shift in thinking at Shamrock House for the A220 to find its way into the fleet and I don't see that happening any time soon unfortunately.

Personally I think MAN is better suited to 1 A333 + 2 A321LR going forward. The arrival of the A332s should be able to accommodate this while also adding vital capacity to Dublin in the shape of a returned A333 from MAN.

I'm pretty sure both A332s are kitted out for west coast ops anyway, maybe someone can confirm but I thought they had crew rests installed? That would be wasted at the MAN base. The actual operating costs are pretty close anyway so keeping them in Dublin wouldn't be an issue and you'd avoid the costs of re-registering four aircraft for a negligible gain.

Is that the 'shed' or an actually crew rest area?