Birmingham: Aer Lingus Flights, New Routes & Schedule Updates

[Coathanger16]

New Aer Lingus livery:

https://www.aerlingus.com/media/images/content/meet-our-new-look.jpg

 

[Ray Finkle]

 

[JENNYJET]

I like Bland! Following the new Lufthansa livery, it appears that aircraft painting has become the latest cost cutting measure.

I await the 70th anniversary livery for B.A.

 

[thunderchild]

I think that should read Feck**g Bland!

 

[BHXsupporter]

I'd always associated Ireland with green (something to do with the rain and it does glow as you overfly in comparison to other lands)!

 

[juliet-fox-9]

The word "identikit" comes to mind for me. I wonder if EI and Iberia, Lufty, LEVEL, Westjet, LATAM, Transat, Alitalia, Qantas, Avianca, easyJet, Belavia, and EVA Air have all been to the same "design consultants"?

 

[thunderchild]

The word "identikit" comes to mind for me. I wonder if EI and Iberia, Lufty, LEVEL, Westjet, LATAM, Transat, Alitalia, Qantas, Avianca, easyJet, Belavia, and EVA Air have all been to the same "design consultants"?

You forgot Air Canada, Finnair and China Eastern!

I actually quite like the new West Jet livery, along with Gulf Air and El Al they represent the best of the recent rebrands we’ve seen. Sometimes less can mean more.

Strangely you then get airlines like Malaysia and Royal Air Maroc that get it absolutely spot on and for some bizzare reason decide only too paint it on a handful of planes!

 

[Vinny94]

I’ll be honest here, I’m not much of a big fan. For me, the uniqueness of the old livery is just gone now and as the other posters have said, it looks similar to Qantas and Westjet etc. I was hoping for a livery with more greenery as that set it apart. It’s not terrible, but it would be similar to KLM getting rid of their all blue livery and opting for something generic.

 

[Coathanger16]

New livery on the A320:



Glad to see the tail 'green' more closely matches the renders this time.

I would say that if Aer Lingus was a new Irish Airline launched this year, the livery was a good choice. It certainly feels modern in the 2019 aviation industry.

Unfortunately Aer Lingus isn't a new airline.

In researching their new livery, supposedly Aer Lingus found that more colour reflected low cost, whilst less reflected full service. As they're trying to position themselves as somewhere in the middle, I think they could have opted for a bit more colour. Perhaps something like the 'stripe' along the fuselage like easyJet's livery (but in green obviously) could have worked better?

 

[Ray Finkle]

New livery on the A320:

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I think it looks better on the A320 over the A330 but I'm still not impressed 😒

 

[Coathanger16]

I think it looks better on the A320 over the A330 but I'm still not impressed 😒

I'd agree with you about the A320 - I guess being smaller it appears that there's less white.

As I said before, I didn't originally like the new American and Air Canada livery but I've grown to like them. Both airlines went from a full fuselage livery (bare metal and pale bluey green) to mostly white with just the tails coloured.

I think I'll grow to like this on the A320, but not sure about the A330.

Will be interesting to see how this looks on the A321LR later this year and the A350 when they arrive next year.

What's going to happen with Aer Lingus Regional (operated by Stobart Air)? Will we see this livery on the ATR?

 

[rutamkrd]

Nothing to see here - it’s meh !

That said it’s all about potential inter operability across the IAG estate.

Would take probably just few days to change the tail wrap and off to IB VY or LV if needs be !

Internally they are all pretty much the same seating already .

 

[JENNYJET]

As said, await BA Livery change. It is likely to raise Thatcher from her grave!!

 

[Coathanger16]

Maybe its just me not wanting the BA livery to change, but I'm not so sure this is an IAG 'plan' or anything.

Whilst yes this new livery is similar to Iberia and Level, its also similar to Westjet, Qantas, Air Canada, American, Delta and others.

Plus BA's current livery is almost all white with colour on tail and engines, just like this Aer Lingus livery is.

 

[Deleted member 8277]

New livery on the A320:

View attachment 11982

Glad to see the tail 'green' more closely matches the renders this time.

I would say that if Aer Lingus was a new Irish Airline launched this year, the livery was a good choice. It certainly feels modern in the 2019 aviation industry.

Unfortunately Aer Lingus isn't a new airline.

In researching their new livery, supposedly Aer Lingus found that more colour reflected low cost, whilst less reflected full service. As they're trying to position themselves as somewhere in the middle, I think they could have opted for a bit more colour. Perhaps something like the 'stripe' along the fuselage like easyJet's livery (but in green obviously) could have worked better?

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weird looking Airbus is it a A320 or a A321????

 

[Coathanger16]

weird looking Airbus is it a A320 or a A321????

The Aer Lingus is an A320.

The easyJet is an A321NEO.

 

[Deleted member 8277]

The Aer Lingus is an A320.

The easyJet is an A321NEO.

I was on about the easyjet, I have never seen or noticed before a A321 NEO with overwing exits and no door 2 emergency exits. You live and learn.

 

[Coathanger16]

I was on about the easyjet, I have never seen or noticed before a A321 NEO with overwing exits and no door 2 emergency exits. You live and learn.

Features of the Airbus Cabin Flex option. More here:

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/pictures-easyjets-first-a321neo-makes-farnborough-450477/

 

[Ray Finkle]

Cork seems to be 3x daily on Sun, Mon, Thur and Fri from 20th May with Sat going 3x daily from 6th July for the peak summer period. Tue and Wed remain 2x daily.

 

[Brum X]

Been reported on the dried fruit by OltonPete that Aer Lingus are reducing BHX-DUB from 5-4 weekly and the last rotation of the day will switch from Airbus A320 to Cityjet on a much smaller jet. Quite a lot of capacity gone on BHX-DUB