Seats & entertainment are definately early 1990s style. Long haul there is still some limited service, but forget having a free bar unless you are in business class. Shannon Aer Lingus Airbus A320 on the stand before takeoff to LHRĪll shorthaul flights are one class only, no-frills, buy on board. Effectively the airline runs two services - long haul, ferrying American tourists to Dublin, and shorthaul, taking residents of Eire to bucket and spade destinations. Plans are now being made for the privatisation of the company.Īer Lingus has lost its membership of the Oneworld alliance, which it uses to mop up some transatlantic feeder traffic, because it doesn't provide services that many passengers on codeshares would expect. It then axed prety much all on board service. It adopted the slogan Low Fares, Way Better. A number of radical cost cutting measures have seen the airline axe anything which doesn't make a profit, and a large number of staff. In 2001, the airline even stopped all services for a number of weeks while it tried to work out financial deals allowing it to stay aloft. The airline is owned by the Irish government, under whose guide it became a moribund carrier that was just a few steps from total bancrupcy. Long haul it is a little better, and Air Fungus - as many have now christened the airline - can still just about hold its own transatlantic.īased in Dublin, it operates over 30 aircraft serving Europe, Asia and the United States. All onboard frills and business class have been axed. Quality on Aerlingus has plunged of late, and around Europe it is little more than one of the smaller low cost carrier. Aer Lingus' strategy has changed fundamentally since it joined the alliance six years ago and is no longer convergent with oneworld's full service strategy.Īer Lingus is the national airline of Ireland. NEWS: Aer Lingus has bailed out of the oneworld Alliance, as a result of it becoming a no-frills carrier.
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