Aer Lingus

That is interesting. Aren't they entitled to 3 months notice? or are they going to make them redundant immediately and pay them 3 months in lieu.
Whichever you look at it, it is a sad state of affairs.

It depends on length of service. Most employers will apply PILON(Payment in lieu of Notice) as effectively it ceases employment earlier, but doesn’t impact contractual payments to the employee.

As Aer Lingus UK is relatively new, unless people transferred over from another group entity, then length of service is likely low for their employees.

Agree, sad situation for the staff impacted.

Statutory Notice Periods in the Uk are:

• 1 month to 2 years: At least 1 week's notice.
• 2 to 12 years: 1 week's notice for each full year of service (e.g., 5 years = 5 weeks).
• 12 years or more: 12 weeks' notice.

Reports on the dried fruit forum is that EI have increased LBA (& EDI) to x27 weekly, x4 daily excluding SAT, where it is x3, presuming without looking its TUE & WED that have gained the extra 2 rotations.

Yep, looks like additional mid day on Tuesday (from 3X to 4X), and additional mid day and afternoon on Wednesday (from 2X to 4X)

DUB or BHD?

SierraHotel said:

DUB or BHD?

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BHD

LBAYORKIE said:

I can understand that flights to Europe wont be all that popular (flying west to Dublin to fly back east) but Im sure theres a demand and surely theyve nothing to lose from an Aer Lingus perspective. Their fares from Dublin to Europe seem very competitive. Maybe they are avoiding conflict with BA?

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I would have said they probably have a lot to lose as they’d need to reconfigure the whole hub. For example the first wave of all the flights to europe depart Dublin 06:00 to 08;00, which is the same time as the regional flights are heading over to the uk. So you need to base the aircraft in the uk, fly them over to DUB early morning and you’ve then messed up the a whole idea of connecting to the US flights. Of course you could operate a very dense schedule where you have aircraft based in LBA and DUB flying say 6 x daily but then more seats to fill and you’d need to repeat that at all the other uk departure points, so more aircraft, pilots, crew needed.

mullion said:

LBAYorkie the Aer Lingus was making a profit of about 3 Million per Aircaft and Flights over World cup were well booked as well so I`m sure there is more to it but staff have not even been told they are redundent yet

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Airlines will usually talk about returns on investment or capital or operating margin rather than a £ value per aircraft. £3 million is great if you invested £1 million to earn it. If you invested £100 million, then it’s worse than just putting the money in the bank. All the data suggests Aer Lingus uk was generating a return well below peers in the IAG stable and below their 12-15% target. When that happens most businesses would logically look at the detailed performance data and make an assessment of how feasible it would be to drive an improvement or whether to just shift the aircraft somewhere else. Thats the thing with planes, they are the most mobile asset there is. An underperforming factory is very hard to move - 2 x A330s, very easy.

Even though based on the current hub operation European connections may not all be optimal what do they have to lose by offering through tickets?