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AER LINGUS REGIONAL today announced that they will be adding an additional 100,000 seats for winter, 50 flights per week and a new route from Dublin to Newcastle Airport.
There will also be increase of 10 per cent to services in Cork.
The 50 extra weekly flights will be added on Aer Lingus Regional services from Dublin to Aberdeen, Bristol, Cardiff and Glasgow, with another eight weekly flights added from Cork to Birmingham and Manchester.
New route
The new route to Newcastle will operate two daily return flights from Dublin.
Aer Arann’s Chief Commercial Officer, Simon Fagan said that the addition of Newcastle to the network and extra flights to Aberdeen, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester, is the next step in the growth plan of AerArann which will provide further options for passengers flying to the UK.
The airline also announced that they would be adding 10,000 additional seats to London Southend.
The airlines new aircrafts will operate flights to the London Southend, with Aer Arann ordering eight new aircrafts earlier this year as part of a €144 million deal with ATR, the world’s largest manufacturer of regional aircraft.
Mr Fagan added:
We recently welcomed the government’s announcement of the removal of the travel tax from April 2014 which will help Aer Arann grow its network further and reach its goal of carrying 1.4 million passengers by 2014.
Aer Lingus Regional is operated by Aer Arann.
That’s great news, the national carrier is flying along.
This is Aer Arran Fong….They operate the AerLingus regional franchise on behalf of AerLingus…But yes, it is good news
Nothing from Shannon? If I didn’t know any better I’d swear Aer Lingus is holding a personal grudge against Shannon Airport and there is a hidden agenda somewhere. The stand off with the Shannon based Aer Lingus cabin crew prove my point. For years if you wanted to fly Aer Lingus in or out of Shannon the fares were more or less double that of Dublin. Oh well, Aer Lingus loss is Ryanair’s gain.
You make it sound like Aer Lingus don’t want people to travel to Shannon, in truth people don’t want to fly to Shannon or Aer Lingus would fly there.
People don’t want to fly from Dublin you mean. The Island we live on is named Ireland, not Dublin. Dublin airport is not very user friendly and that even goes for the new terminal 2 which cost the Irish taxpayer over inflated building costs. At the time of construction, there were more brown envelopes landing in corrupt peoples pockets involved in the building than planes landing at Dublin airport.
Ryanair added hundreds of thousands of seats in Shannon last week. Not everything is about Shannon. Occasionally, there may be airlines who want to add capacity to Dublin, Cork or Knock and they won’t always feel the need to throw a sop to Shannon.
Plus, that Ryanair deal makes it a lot less likely that anyone will expand from Shannon.
If Aer Lingus thought they would get bums on seats they’d use it, they don’t, Ryanair do, lets wait and see who wins.
Aer Lingus cabin crew at Shannon are the likely cause of this. The company announced 40 new jobs there, but is now cutting 80 due to pampered cabin crew not wanting to give up well expensed overnights in Manhattan
I love flying from Shannon, mainly because it is so quiet! No queues, easy parking, no traffic, etc. Having said, it could easily take double the current number of passengers and it would still be a oy to travel through.
Excellent stuff!
If Cork started transatlantic Shannon would be no more.
I hope i live to see the first transatlantic flight from Cork,but it wont happen while the DAA has control, thats for sure.
I know, it’s a shame a gem of an airport yet we can only fly 3/4 hours away from it… Bring on transatlantic imagine the tourist we would get in the south of the country…
That is one exciting bucket list you have there,Richard. What else is on it ?
As a leasure traveler to the US i would like nothing better than hop on and off a plane in Cork,and im sure a lot of multi national companys located here would also support such a service if it was available,but then thats not in the DAA interest is it.
Wrong Richard..It absolutely will happen under the DAA…But it is up to Airlines like Delta and United who fly 757′s to the East coast US..
Ireland is Dublin and Cork. Everyone knows that :(
Ireland is Dublin.
Where is Cork ?
Comes from trees, u dip tihs..
Ireland refers to the island of the republic of Ireland & northern Ireland. Why do people forget about Belfast? Have the 2nd & 3rd busiest airports in Ireland
@Tiger I think you will find that Ireland is Ireland meaning the Republic. If you wish to encompass our neighbours in Northern Ireland then you say the Island of Ireland.
Ireland refers to Ireland!! Simple as!! When you want to book a flight from Belfast you click into “United Kingdom”, NOT Ireland !!
It’s not guys – it’s called the republic of Ireland. Officially that is what the 26 counties is called. Look up the constitution
Tiger – when you are speaking of Deutschland, do you say Germany, or The Federal Republic of Germany? There is Ireland, and then there is a part of the United Kingdom called Northern Ireland that is on the same island.
We all know the answer, as well as that you already understood all of this.
None for knock either
Knock was a gift to the clergy…. an accident of history.
Its doing well but has the catchment area only to support so many flights.
True about the catchment but a blessing if anything why would I want to spend 4 hours getting home from a flight when I come home from London? If it was not for knock airport is drive home all the time.
Not a bad news after all. ..
A good news story from Aer Lingus and still the comments attract moaners left, right and centre. Some people are never happy.
Be careful with the regional baggage allowance. i flew to Birmingham on a standard flight and back from Bristol only to find i has to check my hand luggage as the regional flight has smaller capacity… £30 for the trouble!
I compared flight prices with Ryanair and Aer Lingus’ new service to Newcastle recently. Same dates , baggage, etc…. Ryanair € 86.00 , Aer Lingus €220.00 . I think that one’s a no-brainer.
The national carrier that doesn’t serve the nation. Bit like the government it fails to recognise that the south east is actually part of the nation
Feel free to pay for loss making routes / airports yourselves.
Well flybe don’t share your view Joey.
As a Dub living in Southend (Which is Essex by the way, not London!) I am very happy with this news!!!
Nice one Aer Lingus! :D
They must have got the idea to call it London Southend from Ryanair, anyone for a flight go Brussels?…. I mean Charleroi?
The Aer Lingus regional flights from Dublin are a joke, you have to check in in T2 , then they make you get on a bus which drives you past the old terminal out to the arse end of the field. A real time waster
It’s about a 3minute bus ride to the remote stands. Will ya get over yourself.
What we need is EasyJet.
Hope that it does not mean there are more people emigrating from, and coming back on holidays to, Dublin. Cork people must have more employment. Poor Dublin always hit.
the last time I used it they had a very early closing gate time relative to the take off time , the effect was more than 3 minutes
They need to get you to the aircraft min 20mins before the aircraft is due to start engines. Last time I used them the gate closed 30mins before departure time, the norm for most airlines, thus giving the bus 10mins to get to the plane. These aircraft are wasted at the gates as the air bridge can’t be used on them.
How long before the Unions call another strike ?
In those crappy planes!?
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