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

All major airport stakeholders bar Aer Lingus and now the Minister for Finance are calling it for it be scrapped or amended.

Add this to the EI track record of late. An observer could easily conclude there is a vacuum of leadership at the airline currently.

The lack of comment from the CEO and generally self destructive behaviour of management during the Pilot dispute gave the impression of a leadership vacuum. O'Leary has said the cap has prevented him from basing an additional 4 aircraft at the airport with a loss of over a million pax. Aer Lingus should be saying "we have 6 brand new Airbus Long Haul jets due to arrive in the coming x months. These would create x number of direct jobs and bring in x number of passengers generating x million for the Irish economy, as well as driving indirect economic growth and job creation in other industries in Ireland. If the cap remains, we may be forces to locate these aircraft in Manchester, costing the Irish economy these jobs, tourists etc".

@HT Cone "If the cap remains, we may be forces to locate these aircraft in Manchester, costing the Irish economy these jobs, tourists etc".

Certain types of people would happily accept, or even demand any amount of loss to the national economy if it comes with a small gain to their local airport. It's generally wrongly dressed up as something virtuous like "decentralisation" or "helping the environment" and it gets amplified by an ignorant and/or cynical national media.

Remember not too many years ago, it was the received wisdom that the economy of the entire Western Seaboard from Donegal down to Kerry and right around to Waterford was dependant on the Shannon Stopover.

Heard Hainan Airlines looking at SNN. The Chinese originating passengers have been told it’s the handiest airport on the Island.

Ei eav still in atlanta anyone know what happened to her

Think we pretty much did that to Ethiopian some years ago and the UAE got a very beneficial bilateral deal back in the Bertie years IIRC.

Kuwait has a tech stop only arrangement some years ago in SNN which was mutually beneficial.

Been on its way home overnight, due to land back at DUB in about 30 minutes.